[OpenLayers-Users] Web Forum for OpenLayers

[Paul Spencer]

Personally I dislike forums and have never been comfortable with  
using them.  I think it is just personal preference, but I find it  
difficult to navigate in forums and almost impossible to get any  
information out of them.  But then I was not raised to forums and I  
know folks who swear by them ...

Paul

On 28-Mar-07, at 10:16 AM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> 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/#comment-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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