RE: We need a forum!
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- Subject: RE: We need a forum!
- From: "Brett Kapilik" <brett@...>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 09:18:18 -0500
I deleted the forum from Icy North because of lack of interest. In a couple of months there were only a couple of posts. I have no commercial interest in having the forums on MY site inparticular, I would love to see fourms anywhere. From my experience with my day job (www.indigorose.com) we have found forums to be an extremely effective way of communicating and creating a community.
That being said, I have re-created a Lua forum at http://www.icynorth.com/fourms. How about this, everyone who is interested in getting Lua forums going can go there and discuss the pros and cons of such a move and we can discuss what main forums that we want to see as well as discussing moderation, etc. If the interest is there I will leave the fourm up for now until we decide upon a permanent location. I would personally be willing to front the money for a domain name for a year and the first 3 months of Web space for www.luaforums.com (or whatever). I know of several good Web hosting spots where we can go for like 10ドル per month. So all of you forum lovers, come on over and let's get proactive about this - put in a post so I can try to gauge how much interest there is.
As a side, I thought that one cool thing would be to have volunteers keep a mirror of this Lua mailing list in the fourms, if they come to be. That way it is the best of both worlds. I have no lack of ideas but I don't want to go at it alone and especially if the interest is not there. I have enough to do in life already ;)
- Brett Kapilik
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo [mailto:lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 5:38 AM
> To: lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
> Subject: Re: We need a forum!
>
>
> >Just for the record, I strongly prefer the mailing list.
>
> Just for the record, so do I.
>
> On the other hand, we the Lua team obviously want to the Lua
> community as best
> as we can. I'm all in favor of creating a forum, but we the
> team cannot do it.
> The place to do it is at lua-users (see its charter). Of
> course, it doesn't
> have to be physically at lua-users (what does "physically"
> mean anyway in the
> internet?). We just need some DNS magic and a link for it the
> forum lua-users.
>
> Perhaps we can simply reactivate the forums kindly created at
> Icy North
> Technologies by Brett Kapilik? Does anyone knows why they
> have died? Lack
> of interest?
>
> Also, does anyone know whether the chat room has any traffic
> at all? I've tried
> it a couple of times and there seemed to be no one.
>
> Bottom line: let's stop discussing tastes and do something
> about it. If the
> community wants a forum, just create one. You don't need a
> blessing from the
> Lua team.
>