[Kolab-devel] Forum at eforum.de

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Monday 18 September 2006 12:48, Andreas Micklei wrote:
> Am Freitag, 15. September 2006 19:16 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> > > How about closing the forum and putting a link to the mailingliste
> > > there?

> > Some users reported that they will much more comfortable with a forum,
> > it has some advantages compared to a mailinglists regarding the
> > possibilities to organise topics, like moving threads.
> > On the other hand if I cannot reach Olaf and do not get answer from
> > Lanner as some point, I think that removing the link is something I will
> > have to do.

> > There is one person that possibly could volunteer for being a moderator,
> > I could also publish a call for help on the users-list.

I just commited the change to remove the link to the forum at eforum.de,
as I got no report from the user and the situation is not good.
I will see if I can lock the forum itself and add a hint.

> To make my point clear. My critism was in no way meant to be destructive. I
> know that many people prefer a forum over a mailinglist or newsgroup, so
> generally I think having a forum is a good thing.

If we want to have a new forum, we will need to find more help with it.
One possibility would be to use the forum of the gforge software
for the geforge that we run on wald.intevation.de

> Unfortunately I think there is not enough discussion around kolab to fill
> all the boards in the foum with meaningfull content. This is why I got the
> impression of kolab being a dead project and nearly dropping it after
> looking through the forum. IMHO people are scared away when they look at
> the current state of the forum. For example look at the Kolab Wish List.
> The last posting is from February 23, 2006. Not really encouraging for new
> kolab users.

I agree.

> On the other hand this mailinglist is active with discussion and very
> useful. So I think focusing on this working communication channel and
> directing people here would be a better idea than investing time in the
> structure of the forum.

Do you think the current navigation is good enough to point people
with questions to the users list?
If not, how can we improve?

> P.s. I really DO like the wiki.

The wiki is an initiative by Hamish Gough (http://www.goughconsulting.co.uk/).
Thanks Hamish!

Bernhard
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