Ubuntu-Au Forum

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Once upon a time I was an admin at the largest Mandrake/Mandriva and
later PCLinuxOS community sites. Now that site is a mere shadow of its
former self, and the thousands of posts that went into it are no
longer available.

A risk of contributing to some random Web site is that there's no
certainty that your information will remain publicly available at that
address for the long term. Web sites come and go.

Like I've said earlier in this thread, the answer to the forum/list
question is to use a service like Google Groups or Gmane to have a
Web-based interface to a list. This is explained at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/MailingLists

Mailing lists get mirrored around the Internet, so your posts are
likely to remain available for a long time to come.


2009/10/16 bwright <bwright.au at gmail.com>:
> I enjoy the idea of a forum however I would like some level of
> integration with mailing lists. I am also an advocate of distributed
> computing and I would prefer if there were mirrors of the website
> available to ensure it doesn't just die if its owner goes IDLE. Just
> throwing it out there but if the site does get formed why not put it
> on git hub so we can clone it.
>
> On Oct 14, 9:32 am, The Bronze <braddan... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know Andrew who has brought the page back up to date.
>>
>> I will ask him if thats possible. Might save him some time having to
>> keep it sorted.
>>
>> Probably the only problem with feed is depending on where your getting
>> them from most can be irrelevant or worst, it's just so much
>> information that people give up and move on.
>>
>> It all comes down to ensuring you choose the right sites to feed
>> from.
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion. I will pass it onto Andrew and see what he
>> says.
>>
>> Re:  www.OSGUI.comWill have a look. Thanks for sharing.
>>
>> Bronze.
>>
>> On 12 Oct, 22:32, db <db.pub.m... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Just to be clear, the point in having a website is to tell people
>> > ubuntu au exists right ?
>> > So i agree with having an updated site, perhaps it should just be more
>> > like a planet ?.... (with contact information) and just pool feeds
>> > from Australian ubuntu users blogs /other places.
>>
>> > That way the site will have new content (recent) and it will have
>> > contact information as well :)
>>
>> > 2009/10/12 The Bronze <braddan... at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > > Hmmm. Ok so I'm reading that people don't want forums for various
>> > > reasons. In fact I read it four or five times which is why I'm not a
>> > > fan of mail groups but...
>>
>> > > The main reason for me posting it that I want to contribute in some
>> > > way to the development / promotion of Ubuntu, particularly in
>> > > Australia and not just take take take.
>>
>> > > So shelve the forum idea if it's not going to be used.
>>
>> > > So not wanting to get off topic but to answer my wider question. How
>> > > can I help? It shouldn't be this hard to volunteer.
>>
>> > > I've joined my local LUG. Plans are in the tube for teaching new users
>> > > (14th) and a SFD coming up (November). So thats a physical help. How
>> > > can I help online?
>>
>> > > I've tried to offer my services to Admin / contribute to the Ubuntu-Au
>> > > site (get it up to date) but my offers (both here and on IRC) seem to
>> > > have fallen on deaf ears. There are lots of people but no President,
>> > > Marketing or Council to email and say: Hi, I can do this, this and
>> > > this. What do you want me to do?
>>
>> > > I really didn't think it would be this hard to help. Talk about
>> > > banging head against wall.
>>
>> > > I can understand that a forum may not be useful so what then. Thought?
>>
>> > > I'm thinking maybe I might try and do an Ubuntu-Au podcast with
>> > > interviews, news and tips/tricks instead.
>>
>> > > If this doesn't work I think I'll just concentrate on scouting.
>>
>> > > Thanks in advance.
>>
>> > > Regards,
>>
>> > > Steve
>>
>> > > On 12 Oct, 17:06, IKT <noname... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> *I can read my mail anywhere anytime, a forum requires an active internet
>> > >> connection.  Also my email client highlights what I haven't read yet.*
>>
>> > >> All modern forums have the ability to let you 'subscribe' to a thread, and
>> > >> you can set it to send you an email with the contents of every reply.
>>
>> > >> *- Animated Avatars*
>>
>> > >> Most modern forums have the ability to disable them or the admins could set
>> > >> it to not have avatars at all.
>> > >> *
>> > >> - Knowing which forums to read involves drill down until you can see the
>> > >> topic*
>>
>> > >> I was thinking 3 or 4 sub forums tops, there's no reason to have a whole
>> > >> wide range of sub-forums when OCAU and Whirlpool have them.
>>
>> > >> *I also prefer email/newsgroups because *I* get to decide what the emails
>> > >> look like on my machine (e.g. HTML/no HTML, font, size, etc.).*
>>
>> > >> Most modern browsers have those specific features you mentioned, font, size
>> > >> etc are availble from the "view" menu on firefox, it also lets you zoom in
>> > >> and if you install the noscript addon it means no scripts run at all.
>>
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