Spec for Edgy: Community Communication

[Andrew Zajac]

On 6/1/06, john levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:
>
> Here's my wish for Edgy. It's not technical, cody or full of bling, but
> it's my personal itch.
>
> After 4 releases, Ubuntu has not just taken off, but stayed in orbit.
> Constantly improving, branching out (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, etc),
> ever more useable (on a whole range of criteria - hey even the brown is
> a nicer shade!) it has a large and growing community.
>
> And there's the problem. It hasn't scaled in terms of community.


I remember when the forums had less than a hundred new posts per day.  There
are currently about fiven hundred new posts every eight-to-twelve hourse or
so.  I beleive the forums are the biggest (in terms of number of users) part
of the forums community.  They have scaled nicely.

I agree the fridge needs some love.  The idea of the fridge discussions
happening on the forums is great on paper, but it has not really resulted in
a lot of cross-pollination between the forum userbase and the
maillinglist/developer base.

Lots of projects and groups have been active on the forums, but without some
nice exposure that the fridge might have given.  For example, Ubuntu women,
Ubuntu Center, Easy Ubuntu, and may more that I fail to mention.

 I think Jeff opening up submissions will bring in a nice boom, especially
if Ubuntu users from all corners of the greater Ubuntu community were made
to feel that they can contribute.

There is a reticence on the part of the mailing list community to
participate in the forums.  Perhaps it is justified;  I dunno.  Maybe this
can be addressed in this spec, too?




azz
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