On 01/25/2006 10:58 PM Peter Flodin wrote:
Web forums promotes communication between people no matter what their technical level. Mailing lists very nearly discourage newbies from helping newbies, as mailing lists usually stop this by complaining about the wrong quoting method or posting in HTML, or off-topic.
OK, there not that much to do wrong in a forum.
So in summary: I believe that a Web forum will allow the openSUSE community of all levels to grow (and provide stickiness to opensuse.org), I don't believe that it will harm or divide the technical expertise on existing opensuse.org mailing lists. Instead I think it will allow the mailing lists to actually discuss the topics intended.
There is an army of users without a voice, give them one...
And who will listen and help? How many people ("good people" sounds very bad and arrogant, but I mean the ones "knowing" things) will there be? An official forum full of newbies and no "experts" is no use to any one. OJ (maybe not pgp-signed for seamonkey-testing purposes)