Am Wed, 25. January 2006 17:06 schrieb Silviu Marin-Caea:
Sonja Krause-Harder wrote:
- We do not want to take resources away from the distribution itself or the work on the build service to set up and maintain a web forum, as we don't see it as a high priority for the openSUSE project at the moment. If you don't agree, we would like to hear your feedback now.
Me too :-) I think that spending resources on a new forum would be wasteful. Just having the mailing lists is perfectly fine.
Another approach might be to evaluate the pros and cons of having a new forum against motivating new users to use the given ways/tools of communication. IMO on the long run it will be better to do so. The number of postings to SUSE mailing list decreased dramatically over the last year. As I've been told this is due to the change of users SUSE has nowadays than in the past. But this isn't an argument I would accept due to the fact that this is not on other lists from redhat, mandrake, debian and ubuntu. Most of these show an increase of postings not a decrease. Even low traffic lists like scribus-users show more traffic than opensuse. For me it seems very suspicious if only SUSE has a change in users motivation / profile. This motivation may be done by easy to understand starter guides, as printout given away with every box, as startup screen at the first login, as a welcome page for new openSUSE-wiki subscribers, etc.pp. Or by invitations to participate in the spirit of a project like openSUSE, which would be a more emotional attempt. In the fields of user motivation / user management/supervision there is a enormous potential which isn't activated yet. regards, Thomas