[ubuntu-za] new South African Ubuntu forum being launched

[Johan Mynhardt]

On 12 March 2013 14:28, Alf Stockton <alf at stockton.co.za> wrote:

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Why?
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+1

As if the standard Ubuntu-ZA forum isn't busy enough!

We've been through the topic several times.

On one hand I can understand if someone tries to mean good by it, but then
it might be a sign that the community isn't visible enough? If this is the
case, maybe we should try to get word out there asking people for
suggestions.

This kind of fragmentation isn't good for the community as we already don't
have the resources to run what we have on full capacity (IMHO).

Tongue-in-the-cheek - it reminds me of my 'younger IRC years' where I
recall people having fights about luring people to other servers and what
not.
It's not the same, I know, but if it's not controlled somehow, we will end
up with too many loose ends.

Fair enough, the website part is great and I don't have any pains in that
regard, but why start another forum?

Feel free to roll me over a hot plate a couple of times, but I think this
needs 'serious' discussion.

I think it's time to read the *Ubuntu Code of Conduct* again.
http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/conduct
Just an excerpt:

Be collaborativeWhat we produce is a complex whole made of many parts, it is
the sum of many dreams. Collaboration between teams that each
have their own goal and vision is essential; for the whole to be
more than the sum of its parts, each part must make an effort to
understand the whole.

Collaboration reduces redundancy and improves the quality of
our work. Internally and externally, we celebrate good collaboration.
Wherever possible, we work closely with upstream projects and
others in the free software community to coordinate our efforts.
We prefer to work transparently and involve interested parties
as early as possible.

We can't boss people around - they are free to do what they want. But
synergy is much stronger than uncontrolled loose ends.

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