[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] how we can enhance the maemo.org

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Karoliina T. Salminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think we have been thinking about adding wiki and that it would be a
> good idea.
> However, I have another improvement idea in mind:
> 
> How about discussion forums? I think they are easier to manage
> than mailing lists, but that is just my opinion as I am a forum heavy
> user and not
> all are like that. Could you by the way tell your opinion about forums,
> do you like or dislike
> them? Adding e.g. phpbb running on the server wouldn't be a huge task I
> think.

Forums tend to be a black hole for documentation, bugreports and fixes.
It should be made *very* clear that forums are something *extra* to
maemo.org, not an integral part of it. Forums are nice to get newbies
going and build a non-irc community, but shouldn't replace documentation
and mailinglists.
Forums also tend to be more user-oriented than developer-oriented which
lead to developer-drain in the forums I used to frequent.

This is of cource my personal opinion as an arrogant bastard who
actually reads docs ;)


> We have several forums running on our home server already with phpbb and
> the configuration
> (including the MySQL database setup) was one evening task or so.
> 
> One of the benefits with forums is that they are very easily accessible
> with
> the 770, I surf some forums with the 770, easy interface to check topics
> that I am just
> interested to and nothing else without waiting for ages the e-mail
> buffer to be
> transferred via (my mobile phone's) GPRS to the device (I don't have
> EDGE or UMTS on my
> phone yet, therefore I don't have the luxury to download huge amounts of
> data when I am
> not connected to WLAN with the N770, however, looking what is new in a
> forum is
> a few seconds long task with the N770 even with a GPRS-connection :) ).

A gmame (or sourceforge) like interface to the mailinglists accomplishes
 about the same for the email part.

> 
> There are different competing forum softwares out there. Which one would
> you prefer by the way in case you would like the idea?
> For example one of my favourite forums allows picture attachments and it
> is pretty cool feature
> that is not present in the phpbb:
> http://www.fsnordic.net/discussion/
> I don't know if it is relevant for us to have picture attachments, but 
> I was just thinking of
> some screen shots, it would be a lot easier to attach a picture to the
> message than put
> the picture to your home page, and then create a [img] [/img] -link to
> that file.

I do like to drool over screenshots in forums :)

regards,

Koen


> 
> Karoliina Salminen
> karoliina at maemo dot org
> 
> 
> 
> ext Matt Croydon wrote:
> 
>> Devesh,
>>
>> A wiki would be ideal and would allow us to create pages like the
>> application/porting effort pages as well as create a central place for
>> porting notes, lists of apps that ./configure && make, etc.
>>
>> --Matt
>>
>>
>> On 6/14/05, Devesh Kothari <devesh.kothari at nokia.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> to support developers better. Any ideas??
>>>
>>> Br,
>>> Devesh
>>>
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