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

[From: Aleksandr Koltsoff]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 18:17, Karoliina T. Salminen wrote:
> In my opinion, forums are just great for shot-lived discussions.
> That is their purpose. E-mail lists really are not chat places however.
> Intention was not to replace e-mail list but add an additional feature,
> in other words, like the topic says "enchance maemo.org".

IRC (silc later?) is quite workable for short-lived discussions. What is the 
point of having "short-lived" discussions that go on for a long time? 
However, I'm not going to argue whether forums are good or bad in this 
respect, I have a more practical suggestion below.

> It really does not matter if it is the browser field when posting to
> a forum. I don't think the art of text editing is the reason for
> posting to a forum, if it is the matter of capabilities of the
> text editor, then the forum is really not the right choice for posting.

Usability is an issue when trying to lower the participation to a project. 
Using web broadens the scope of people who can participate (not necessarily 
accessability as evidenced by all the different-theme forums) but lowers 
useability (IMHO).

> Any more votes?
>
> a) An additional web based forum would ruin the site
> b) Indifferent, ok to add or ok to be without.
> c) It has some benefits to add a web based forum
> d) Would love to have an additional forum

e) Postpone adding a forum to avoid splintering the public "development". When 
770 goes live properly I'm sure there will be a need for non-developers to 
chat in a short-lived way. I mostly worry about splitting my time between 
clicking my mouse around in some forum and reading email and everything else.

Just my 2 kopeikas worth.

ak.