Ubuntu users LiveJournal

[James McCormick]

sparkes wrote:
> James McCormick wrote:
> 
>> I just set up an unofficial LiveJournal account for Ubuntu users to 
>> come  and discuss our favorite distrobution without having to deal 
>> with the massive load on the newsgroup/mailing list.  This generally 
>> makes it easier to access posts on a specific topic, which is 
>> something I have difficulty with using the mailing list or the regular 
>> unofficial forums.
>>
>> If you want to join, the url is http://www.livejournal.com/~ubuntu_users.
>>
>>
> I don't really understand why you want to split the community at this 
> stage.  The forums are intergrated with the mailing list and although 
> they create some nasty messages sometimes at least the community can 
> communicate together using these various formats in one place.
> 
> This makes it easier for users to get help and understand where ubuntu 
> is going and for developers to gauge response and gather feedback.
> 
> If it's just chat you want the old sounders list has been redescribed as 
> a chat zone where nothing is offtopic.
> 
> The live journal would need a member of the development team to 
> continually post just to get people to create bugzilla reports.
> 
> As for the fact the mailing list is difficult to search isn't that 
> googles job?
> 
> I can't understand the reasons for this community attempting to fragment 
> so much even before a product is released.  It's something I have never 
> seen before (but to be fair the only large projects I have been so close 
> to for a *long* time have been more mature) imagine where we would be if 
> the linux community had fragmented so much in it's first 3 months?  I 
> doubt we would be having this conversation now.
> 
> sparkes
> 

It's really not an attempt to fragment the community, but to lead more 
people to it.  Generally, the idea will be to direct people who use 
Ubuntu and have LiveJournal accounts and that haven't heard about the 
mailing lists and unofficial forums (I had difficulty with using them in 
the beginning myself) to gain easier access to the community.  To be 
honest, it's more of a gateway for one potential group of users to gain 
access to the general knowledge base.

That was generally my idea behind starting it.