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

[Wolfgang Bornath]

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.

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wobo