[ubuntu-np] Pin drop silence

[Ishwor Gurung]

On 13 November 2010 19:00, Jitendra Harlalka <implements.java at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ishwor Gurung <ishwor.gurung at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 12 November 2010 22:09, Jwalanta Shrestha <jwalanta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Bibek Paudel
>> > <eternalyouth at gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Jitendra Harlalka
>> >> <implements.java at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Coincidentally, I was trying to access planet today morning after so
>> >> long..
>> >> > Even, that one is down.
>>
>> Yes it is. Planet was one good place but still the whole thing being
>> hosted on one server didn't quite help. Prasanna and myself took upon
>> us the hosting cost and it served well initially.
>>
> Planet had really good collection of  quite helpful blog posts. I hope they
> are not lost.
>
>> >> > Anyway, I agree that only existence of website doesn't serve purpose
>> >> > if
>> >> > people don't feel connected to the community.
>>
>> Exactly. We went too fragmented I think.
>>
>> >> +1
>> >>
>> >> If we want to do something similar again, my suggestion: we should
>> >> start by thinking (discussing) about the reasons (problems) why this
>> >> happened.
>
> As far as reasons I concerned, I can think of the following:
>
> Well, definitely the community got fragmented and people aren't feeling as
> associated as they used to say 1-2 years ago. I see similar situation in
> FOSS-Nepal mailing list.
>
> At the same time, I would put blame on facebook and twitter. Even when these
> mailing lists were active, majority of threads were for support and now
> people simply ask their queries on social media. When the thread-volume got
> low, other useful threads (besides support) also died slow death.

Agreed. It's not like Ubuntu-NP does not exist. More like the website
*doesn't* exist :)

I think we rather stick to things we can discuss and share (help out
others in the mean time if we can) on ML, FB and Twitter for now.

By the time we have a need (in that respect the amount of people too)
for a website, we'll have to move towards it.

How are you guys finding Meerkat?

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Ishwor Gurung
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