[OpenLayers-Users] Web Forum for OpenLayers

[kaka]

I am the one who suggested creating a web based forum for OpenLayers. My idea
doesn´t seem to be very attractive to most people around here. As long as
the majority is happy, well, I guess I will have to adapt.

Magnus



Lennox Antoine wrote:
> 
> 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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