[ubuntu-za] new South African Ubuntu forum being launched

[Leon Gert Marincowitz]

I for one would agree with Johan. I barely keep up to date with all my
emails on a good day. And everytime I make it to irc there's hardly anyone
there side's a good few soldiers.

Having looked over the site quickly it looks great but who is going
maintain it. Unless of course the plan should be a migration to the forum?
But that's a different discussion.

Leon G. Marincowitz
lmarincowitz at gmail.com
On 12 Mar 2013 5:26 PM, "Johan Mynhardt" <johanmynhardt at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 12 March 2013 14:28, Alf Stockton <alf at stockton.co.za> wrote:
>
>>  ...
>>
> Why?
>>
>
> +1
>
> As if the standard Ubuntu-ZA forum isn't busy enough!
>
> We've been through the topic several times.
>
> On one hand I can understand if someone tries to mean good by it, but then
> it might be a sign that the community isn't visible enough? If this is the
> case, maybe we should try to get word out there asking people for
> suggestions.
>
> This kind of fragmentation isn't good for the community as we already
> don't have the resources to run what we have on full capacity (IMHO).
>
> Tongue-in-the-cheek - it reminds me of my 'younger IRC years' where I
> recall people having fights about luring people to other servers and what
> not.
> It's not the same, I know, but if it's not controlled somehow, we will end
> up with too many loose ends.
>
> Fair enough, the website part is great and I don't have any pains in that
> regard, but why start another forum?
>
> Feel free to roll me over a hot plate a couple of times, but I think this
> needs 'serious' discussion.
>
> I think it's time to read the *Ubuntu Code of Conduct* again.
> http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/conduct
> Just an excerpt:
>
> Be collaborative What we produce is a complex whole made of many parts,
> it is
> the sum of many dreams. Collaboration between teams that each
> have their own goal and vision is essential; for the whole to be
> more than the sum of its parts, each part must make an effort to
> understand the whole.
>
> Collaboration reduces redundancy and improves the quality of
> our work. Internally and externally, we celebrate good collaboration.
> Wherever possible, we work closely with upstream projects and
> others in the free software community to coordinate our efforts.
> We prefer to work transparently and involve interested parties
> as early as possible.
>
> We can't boss people around - they are free to do what they want. But
> synergy is much stronger than uncontrolled loose ends.
>
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