[ubuntu-za] A Local forum

[David Rubin]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Marco Gallotta <marco at gallotta.co.za>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> > On 04/14/2011 02:05 AM, Raoul Snyman wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, but at least with a mailing list you don't have to remember to go
> to
> >> the forums and check for new posts... the problem with even our current
> >> forum on Ubuntu Forums is that people forget to go back, and thus it
> >> becomes unintentionally neglected and/or deserted.
> >
> > A case in point...  I am a dev for m0n0wall.  I have been active on the
> > mailing lists forever.  Very active.  They also set up a forum, and all
> of
> > us were auto-added.  I remember to get on about once a year?  I may try
> > again today...
>
> This is where I personally prefer Google Groups. It works great as a
> mailing list, and alright as a forum. So you get to choose.
>
> Marco
>

Personally I don't see the point in trying to split up our resources by
creating more forms of official communication/support.

The forums on ubuntuforums.org are the "official forums" we have our own za
specific section which is hardly used because of reasons already mentioned.
I don't see how hosting one our selves requiring users to remember yet
another place to login with yet another login account is going to fix this.

The reason other loco teams branch off and create private forums is because
of the language barrier, they would like their whole forum to be in Italian.
So  unless we are going to start providing support in all 11 official
languages I am hard pressed to try spend more time implementing this
feature.

Yes we could create the forum on ubuntu-za.org (and it should be under the
official domain) and use their login from there (ie launchpad/openid) but I
personally don't see the point.

If people prefer to use forums, PLEASE go ahead and use and promote
http://za.ubuntuforums.org or explain why they aren't sufficient and we can
work on and address specific issues.

</2cents>

David
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