[lugm.org] Visibility and awareness of LUGM

[Ajay R Ramjatan]

The forum had more traffic involving newbies than the mailing list.
There were more questions asked and answered over there. Do you have
any reason for not bringing back something that worked?

The things that we do need to be rethinked. LUGS are no longer that
they used to be.
Distributions are friendlier to install, hence less and less
Installfests. Broadband is more available, hence less people look for
CDs and DVDs to install. One thing I particularly liked is when
someone asked for help and someone from the LUG who lived close to him
went there to help.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:41 PM,  <aadil at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am against bringing back the forum.
>
> Yours truly,
> Aadil.
>
>> Hi Guys / Girls,
>>
>> Agree with Ajay, forum is always a nice way to communicate with others
>> even if we are a member to the mailing list / LUGM members or no.
>>
>> Web site is for general content regarding the LUGM news, events , and
>> misc content.
>>
>> well bring it up asap :D
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anoop.
>> Email : analyserx at gmail.com
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>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Ajay R Ramjatan
>> <ajay.ramjatan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> We need our forum back. It does not require people to register to the
>>> mailing list to ask questions. Forums are awesome.. we had one but
>>> lost it on the road. I can bring it back up quick.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Jochen Kirstätter <lugm at ios.mu> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > On 18/01/11 16:12, thiery louison wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> What is needed is quality articles, that is more oriented towards
>>> newbies.
>>> >> A place where new comers would not be afraid to ask question or or
>>> expose
>>> >> there failures. It should be a place where answers to questions would
>>> not be
>>> >> one-liners(RTFM or Google it).
>>> >
>>> > That's why I came up with the idea to aggregate individual bloggers
>>> for the
>>> > LUGM website.
>>> > Take it as a start and see how it will work out.
>>> >
>>> > Anyone read "The Bazaar and the Cathedrale"?
>>> > Literally, LUGM stands for the cathedrale instead of the bazaar!
>>> >
>>> >> I personally believe that for a such a site to exist. it should
>>> organize
>>> >> events(Quarterly basis, School Holidays) such as install Festival,
>>> Boot
>>> >> Camps and many more.
>>> >
>>> > Sure, but there are also individual interests of LUGM members to earn
>>> > money... So, there might be a dilemma...
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Kind regards.
>>> >
>>> > A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
>>> > Q. Why is top posting bad?
>>> >
>>> > Get Blogged by JoKi - "The only frontiers are in your mind"
>>> > Â http://jochen.kirstaetter.name/ - http://www.ios.mu/
>>> >
>>> >
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