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

[Jan Greeff]

As a newcomer and a rookie in these matters, my humble observation is 
that there will always be a striving towards balance between small 
enough to allow for relationship-building while seeking answers and big 
enough to have sufficient resources to find answers for the more sticky 
problems.

Personally, I get lost in the larger forums, perhaps because I don't 
know the protocols, etc. well enough and I have found some of my 
questions lost among arguments between seasoned forum members who cannot 
agree on whether my question is a duplicate of a solved one or not (it 
was not). The problem remained unsolved, while I felt that if the energy 
consumed by the argument referred to had been applied to seeking a 
solution, a solution would have been found.

Over time, I have also posted a few questions that elicited no reaction 
at all, so obviously I will try the new forum, even though I am still 
unable to establish whether the lack of feedback had been due to too big 
or too small a forum or whether there were other reasons, perhaps my own 
ineptitude.

Jan


On 12/03/2013 20:13, Leon Gert Marincowitz wrote:
>
> I for one would agree with Johan. I barely keep up to date with all my 
> emails on a good day. And everytime I make it to irc there's hardly 
> anyone there side's a good few soldiers.
>
> Having looked over the site quickly it looks great but who is going 
> maintain it. Unless of course the plan should be a migration to the 
> forum?  But that's a different discussion.
>
> Leon G. Marincowitz
> lmarincowitz at gmail.com <mailto:lmarincowitz at gmail.com>
>
> On 12 Mar 2013 5:26 PM, "Johan Mynhardt" <johanmynhardt at gmail.com 
> <mailto:johanmynhardt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 12 March 2013 14:28, Alf Stockton <alf at stockton.co.za
>     <mailto:alf at stockton.co.za>> wrote:
>
>         ...
>
>         Why?
>
>
>     +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 collaborative
>
>     What 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.
>
>     -- 
>     Johan Mynhardt
>
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