[gobolinux-users] Gobolinux Forum?

[Michael Homer]

On 5/26/07, molfar <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/26/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> > When somebody has a problem (say, their system is broken), getting a
> > quick response is important - and often the first responses will just
> > be questions, to help diagnose the problem. That's the scenario where
> This is a solid argument. I accept it.
>
> > Possibilities are nice, and maybe at some point there will be a forum
> > (maybe soon; it does seem there's a few people who'd like it, and
> > "people already on the mailing list" isn't a representative sample for
> > that purpose). The concern is that the kind of fragmentation that will
> > result (and it will, because the lists just aren't going to close) and
> > the lack of interest from the core team will make it worse than having
> > no forum at all.
> That's why we need some middle option that would be beneficial to everyone.
>
> > It seems that some people do want a forum, and if it's sizeable enough
> > a constituency then I guess one will come eventually. Although I
> > prefer using the mailing list, to be honest, I don't really object to
> > having a forum too if there's demand for it, and I at least would try
> > to check it.
> I have come up with yet another valid possibility. Let's move to
> Google Groops! Then those of you who prefer classic mailing can
> continue to use it, and those of us who prefer forum-like browsing
> interface can be happy as well. It might just be the golden nugget we
> all search for.
That would be reasonable. I'm leery of having things be off-domain,
although I can't entirely put my finger on why (it's a little
déclassé, perhaps?). Some other lists I'm on use Google Groups, and
it's not bad, so it might be an ok switch.

Let's see what other people think of that. MJ will pop up in a minute
to explain how evil Google is, but I don't know how other people will
respond. I just grabbed gobolinux-users at googlegroups.com in case we
want it, and I can make the current address forward to that so we
could make the switch as cleanly as possible. Thoughts, anybody?
-Michael