On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:25:57PM +0100, houghi wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:12:38PM +0100, email.listen@googlemail.com wrote:
In the fields of user motivation / user management/supervision there is a enormous potential which isn't activated yet.
I agree. The tendens seems to go towards not having a forum. Not realy a surprise. It is as if you were asking what the best sport is at a soccer club. ;-)
Nah, the question is still open ;-)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong question and should we not need to ask: do we need a forum, but must we ask: how can we reach, motavate and supervise the enourmous potential that is out there and that we do not reach now.
I think one of the problems is the separation between openSUSE - the project, the testing and packaging lists, the wiki - and the old SUSE community - the existing web forums, suse-linux-e etc. Right now the first feedback newbies get when they ask a user question about openSUSE is 1. that what they are using is SUSE Linux, not openSUSE, and 2. that they are on the wrong list and please go ask again on suse-linux-e. While I of course know the reasons for this I think it is a bad thing - we are actively turning away new users from this "openSUSE" thingie. So, in this light, a forum under the openSUSE label would be beneficial, as well as mailing lists aimed at users and newbies. (In my experience linux newbies get fond of mailing lists rather quickly, so let's not confine them to web forums.) But on the other hand, I might be hallucinating that there's a split between the "old" SUSE user community and the openSUSE project. Sonja -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh@suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH