[OpenLayers-Users] Web Forum for OpenLayers

[Lennox Antoine]

Nabble may suit your purposes : http://www.nabble.com/OpenLayers-f15906.html

-Lennox

On 3/28/07, John Cole <john.cole at uai.com> wrote:
>
> -1 for forums, sorry.  Like Christopher, I tend not to monitor them
> closely,
> even with a Vista RSS widget on my desktop :-)  I do think there should be
> a
> really good searchable archive for the mailing list though, as I do like
> to
> go back and search them.  This may already exist, but it should be linked
> from an obvious OL web page.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:users-bounces at openlayers.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:16 AM
> To: users at openlayers.org
> Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] Web Forum for OpenLayers
>
> In comments to the OpenLayers Blog, a user requested:
>
> "
> I would like to see a web based forum for OpenLayers, such as phpBB, and
> not just the Nabble version."
> --
>
> http://openlayers.org/blog/2007/03/26/welcome-to-the-openlayers-blog/#commen
> t-4
>
> There are many reasons why I'm not in favor of this: the most important
> being that I've never found a piece of forum software that I felt didn't
> suck to either use or maintain :)
>
> However, I'm not one to limit discussion based on my personal
> preferences. I'd like to get an idea of whether a web-based forum would
> be a good thing for OpenLayers.
>
> The reasons I'm against it:
> * Forums are (for me) difficult to use, and I would probably never look
>    at it. This applies in a larger sense of,
> * It fractures the community. If we have two excellent contributors on
>    the mailing list, and two excellent contributors on the forum, then
>    the users don't get the full range of possible assistance from either.
> * Additional adminstration headache. But this is personal, since most
>    of the  user community doesn't have to maintain the forum, obviously.
>
> So I think the most important thing to me is the fracturing of the
> community.
>
> On the other hand, there is probably a (reasonable) argument that some
> users won't bother with the mailing list at all, and those users are
> simply lost to us. I don't have enough information to determine if this
> is important enough to the project at this point to fracture the
> community.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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