[OSM-talk] Re: [OSM-dev] Mailing list -> forum?

[Nick Black]

>
> PHPBB or similar?  Forums for newbies and introductions, hardware,
> client software, server software, and miscellaneous?  To be reviewed
> after a couple of months?  And the templates should have clear links
> to the wiki FAQ and Trac for bugs.


I'd support PHPBB or similar.  Forums of this type are commonly used by
large numbers of non technical people - the people we need.  Admittedly I
haven't used an NNTP server, but I really think the simplicity of use of
PHPBB will increase the accesibility and appeal of OSM.




I think that things like gmane help a lot if you're just casually
> following the list.
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap
>
> I personally have no trouble using gmail. I only use it for lists, and
> by and large its conversation threading is pretty good.  (Actually, if
> you're not using a threaded mail client to read this list, how the
> hell do you cope?!  I seriously recommend splitting mailing list
> traffic out from your personal mail, at least with filters if not by
> using a separate address, no wonder people are getting frustrated!)
>
> dorbotlondon's announce and blabber lists work very well - perhaps OSM
> needs an announce list for people who want to track official things
> but don't want to follow every little detail?  I imagine most
> 'announce' type things would also go on the blog, but announce would
> cover things like planned downtime, events, milestones reached, etc.
> Once per month or less, on average.
>
> Tom.
>
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