[ubuntu-in] mailing Lists or Discussion Forums (was Ubuntu India Forum - )

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

My thoughts below:

----- On 9/30/07, Lut4rp <lut4rp at techjugaad.com> wrote:
| 1. I wanted a forum because of the primary ease in accessing them.
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It depends.

I can read e-mails from mailing lists when traveling, with mobile
phones. Not everyone is sitting behind a desktop on a
broadband/dial-up connection to read forums. Forums are intuitive, and
more customer-oriented. Developers, in general, prefer mailing lists.

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| our main goals in this community is to spread the use of FOSS like Ubuntu. I
| suggest somehow replacing/modifying the lists with the forum.
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Each tool is useful in one way or another.

You have to use the right tool for the right tasks, with the right
people, at the right time ... (1)

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| I dont think a
| maiing list is that suitable for a country like India where people are still
| new to FOSS.
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Are you new to FOSS? :)

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| 2. The wiki is not a very good source of India-specific Ubuntu info. It does
| need to be updated. The IRC channel is way too unfamiliar to people in
| India.
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Need to learn to get used to the FOSS culture. Also see (1).

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| answer them "Goto the wiki, Join the mailing list!". Every time, its the
| same reply, "mailing list? forum nahi hai? XP ka vo forum hai na,
| xxxxxx.com, vaisa?"
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There are many forums like linuxquestions.org, linuxforum.com where
people also participate. Nobody said you shouldn't ask Ubuntu
questions there :)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before

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|  6. Taking the ubuntuforums.org example, they arent India-specific, they are
| monstrously huge,
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Welcome to the huge FOSS community.

This mailing list is India specific, and does not have heavy traffic.

Please don't top-post, and use plain text when writing e-mails, in future.

SK

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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com