[Consortium] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAD/LAU/LAA/Consortium/...

Leonard Ritter contact at leonard-ritter.com
Fri Jan 19 00:25:47 EST 2007


i don't see why we need to "move" to forums. mailing lists and forums
have a different target audience and purpose.

however i strongly support a linux audio related forum - especially for
people new to the subject or searching for help (right now they turn up
on irc in order to make fools out of themselves), an aggregation of
knowledge in form of organizable threads that can be browsed wouldn't be
such a terrible idea.

"we need one because others have one" is a stupid argument. there are
far better arguments for a forum.

i think all that is needed is someone with some (security related)
experience with forums and enough time to set it up and moderate - i am
convinced ico or whoever is responsible for la.org will happily provide
resources for such an experiment.

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:11 +0100, Predrag Viceic wrote:
> I didn't pretend that Linuxaudio.org suggest moving to forums. Read my post.
> *I* suggest moving to forums as *I* think it's better way to exchange the info 
> than those 90-tish, Mailman powered, mailing lists where you can't even 
> search for posts or whatever.
> 
> And apparently I'm not the only one that pretends that:
> 
> Ardour has a forum: http://ardour.org/forum/15
> Rosegarden has a forum:  http://www.nabble.com/RoseGarden-f2887.html
> Hydrogen has a forum : http://www.hydrogen-music.org/forum/
> etc. etc. etc.
> 
> WFT?! even glibc has a forum !!
> http://www.nabble.com/Sourceware---glibc-f12198.html
> 
> The idea I had in mind when talking about linux audio forums:
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/
> 
> 
> Predrag Viceic
> http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com
> And no, Freecycle does not have a forum because Savanah doesn't provide such 
> tool.
> 
> 
> Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are solely mine and not of the members of 
> linuxaudio.org "consortium".
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le mardi 16 janvier 2007 17:17, Ivica Ico Bukvic a écrit :
> > Oh dear...
> >
> > Please note that Linuxaudio.org offer does *not* suggest moving to forums.
> > Again, let me repeat, it does *not* suggest moving to forums.
> >
> > It suggests moving the existing mailing lists LAD/LAU/LAA, so that they are
> > hosted under Linuxaudio.org. They would still remain the same lists with
> > same subscribers and same features. The only difference is that we would
> > have them under the Linuxaudio.org umbrella. Namely, we would have
> > linux-audio-dev at linuxaudio.org etc., instead of
> > linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu. But also, more importantly, these as
> > well as any other relevant lists that end-up being consolidated, would be
> > found under *one* *single* URL: lists.linuxaudio.org. And that, in and of
> > itself in my book (and I am sure in a book of any newcomer to Linux audio)
> > would be truly priceless.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Ico
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