Ubuntu Forums Loco Offering

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:14, Michael James <mikej01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like there is enough support for both a forum and a mailing list.

While I do not outright oppose two floors for discussion, I am also wary about 
splintering the community.

A compromise might be to subscribe this list to a mail archive[1]. The more 
the merrier, I say, but I do have a preference for Gmane[2]. Gmane provides a 
forum-like experience on a mailing list. Users can choose to read and 
interact with the list via various means, including threaded or flat Web 
interfaces, or an NNTP newsreader. There are even RSS feeds available.

To give an example, I administer a list for the Ubuntu-l10n-en_GB team[3]. As 
can be seen, there are a range of options to access the list, and people can 
respond to messages in a similar manner to a Web forum. The result is a 
brilliant meld of the mailing list and Web forums concepts, with no division 
or dilution of community.

I would advise that the admin of this list subscribe it to Gmane, and arrange 
for the archives to be imported.


[1] http://gmane.org/links.php
[2] http://gmane.org/
[3] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.translators.en


-- 
"Not throwing out the baby with the bath-water doesn't mean that you cannot 
improve the system. I'm only arguing against stupid people who think they 
need a revolution to improve - most real improvements are evolutionary."
		- Linus Torvalds, 2002-12-05
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