[OpenLayers-Users] Web Forum for OpenLayers

[Francisco Domingues]

I think the way it is now its fine! To maintain the information structure 
and to keep the users in touch with the list the best is to keep all as it 
is now. To ensure the dynamic of the users list it should be as the 
beggining, the changes could divide the 'public'. I found the forum useful 
for searching history messages, this is clear.
Cheers!

Francisco Domingues


>From: Paul Spencer <pagameba at gmail.com>
>To: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
>CC: users at openlayers.org
>Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Web Forum for OpenLayers
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:04:34 -0400
>
>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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