Ubuntu-Au Forum

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

2009/10/10 The Bronze <braddanvip at gmail.com>:
> Opinions please.
>
> I create websites as a past time. Some for businesses. Some for
> community groups. I think this qualifies as the later and have been
> wondering how I can give back to the Ubuntu (and edubuntu) / Linux
> community in general.
>
> What do people think about me hosting and administering a Linux /
> Ubuntu forum for Australian members. I don't know about you but I'm
> not a fan of the whole email / thread thing. It makes a terrible
> archive of information and I generally find the content hard to follow
> compared to the structure of a bulletin board / forum.
>
> Just want to make sure that I'm not going to create something that may
> already exist somewhere (I haven't found it) and that generally people
> may use as an alternative to threaded mails.
>
> I read an email tonight that if you want to do something just go ahead
> and do it. Well I'm happy to but what do other people think before I
> do?

This question is raised every now and then, and our answer is that we
don't want to fragment our already small community by spreading it
over multiple communications media.

E-mail is a very flexible medium, and this can be interacted with in
several different ways. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/MailingLists for a short list.
Using a facility such as Google Groups can do a lot to bring a
forum-like atmosphere to your list experience.


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