Sergiu et. al.<br><br>thanks for introducing the notion of users and developers, how about administrators and web-designers? Are those roles done by one person currently? <br><br>Forums have two more advantages:<br>- What to communicate: Categories/topics (
i.e.&#39;hosting xwiki&#39;,&#39; data base topics&#39;, &#39;tutorials&#39; etc, you&#39;ll get the point) enable
specialization, which increases the effectiveness of developers and
users (BTW: I am mostly a user of xwiki)<br><br>- How and when to communicate:&nbsp; You are not forced to read all entries in a forum assumed it is organized in categories mentioned above. You&#39;d pick the categories of interest and subscribe and contribute to those. Users and developers will have more time to focus on their task at hand.
<br><br><br>A minor burden of a forum IMHO is the need for a moderator (maybe even per category), in order to keep it organized. I&#39;d volunteer to be the one for the user (not developer) community.<br><br>BTW: XWIKI is a collaboration space, isn&#39;t it? But the user communication is done through emails? Sounds strange.
<br><br>Uwe<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sergiu Dumitriu</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sergiu.dumitriu@gmail.com">sergiu.dumitriu@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>We&#39;re currently using mailing lists and IRC (and person2person chats) for answering user questions. But:<br>- IRC has no history (yet; when&#39;s that bot coming online?)<br>- mailing lists are not that easy to browse and search.
<br><br>Should we make a forum for users?<br><br>Pro<br>- One place where users can find information, organized by topics<br>- Users are used to posting on forums, and we might get a larger community<br>Con<br>- Soon it will get too crowded, and (some) developers won&#39;t have the time to answer all the emails; we need a strong community, and advanced users knowing the code, and for this we need documentation
<br clear="all"><br>As a developer, I&#39;d stick to mailing lists.<br>As a user, I&#39;d say forum.<br><br>What&#39;s your opinion?<br><span class="sg"><br>-- <br><a href="http://purl.org/net/sergiu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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