[Mageia-marketing] Consolidation of email list and forum mediums

Tue Jan 25 09:45:37 CET 2011

2011/1/25 Bradley D. Thornton <Bradley at northtech.us>:
+>>
+>> Forums will be implemented as well (on forums.mageia.org), it will
+>> possibly turn out that they will mostly be used by users of Mageia to
+>> find support and get together. This is the usual way. So we will need
+>> such a gateway to the mailing lists, so that forum users are able to
+>> follow mailing list discussions and we will not have the same split
+>> between the 2 worlds as at Mandriva.
+>
+> Yes this is what I was hoping would be the plan to implement.
+
+This is not a plan, these are my individual thoughts.
+
+>> How easily people will find the forum is the webteam's task. It has to
+>> be found with one click from the place where visitors of Mageia start
+>> - the portal page of the Mageia website. Any place in the wiki would
+>> be not a good idea.
+>
+> Oh yeah, that's right the Wiki says it's only temporary :)
+
+Yes, but that is not the reason. We will have a permanent wiki.
+
+>>
+>> But I am not sure if we are talking about the same issues here.
+>>
+>
+> I think so. The discussion was about providing a gateway between forums
+> and mail lists, although my original understanding was that wrt the
+> marcom group, there had been issues of splintering in the past as a
+> result of people's preferences for either one communications medium or
+> the other, until there were almost two distinct groups.
+>
+> I feel it's a good idea to extend that gateway capability to the other
+> discussion groups as well, as you suggest.
+
+It is available for the other mailing lists, it's not working for the
+marketing list. I wrote, that I do not know the reason because this
+gateway was not setup by Mageia.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+