You can make
linuxaudio.org 'alive' when you put also a forum on the
site. When there's a active forum, more people will visit the site and
more people will find the site, cause now it isn't very clear for
newbies where to go...
I don't do forums. They are clumsy and worthless things compared to the
sleek efficiency of mailing lists.
When I'm a newbie, I don't look for forums - I look for wikis.
While I appreciate your thoughts on this matter, the keyword here is "we" as
in community, not "I" as in my personal tastes. In other words, while some
(many?) of us may not care much for forums, others may, including
newbies--see Ubuntu forums for instance.
Lao site has addition of forums on the long-term roadmap, so I think having
this as part of lao is something I would very much like to encourage.
Best wishes,
Ico