[clug] CLUG website

Paul Wayper paulway at mabula.net
Thu Jun 18 11:57:01 GMT 2009


On 18/06/09 10:11, keith sayers wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 11:10:35 Paul Wayper wrote:
>
>> I now have access to the CLUG website and am working on modernising it for
>> the joy and entertainment of all.
>
>> The main question I want to pose to the group is what you think we should
>> put on the site.
>
> 	Suggest a list of CLUGgers willing to help with problems in specified areas -
> that would serve to direct beginners such as me to a probable helper rather
> than bother everyone.

Actually, the best situation is actually almost the reverse.  If we keep such 
discussions on the email list, then:

a) other people who might have asked the same question get to learn the answer 
without having to post.
1) you get responses from a range of people who might know about that problem, 
not just the one person who volunteered to put their name on a web page.
?) you still get some kind of response when that 'volunteer' has gone away or 
is too busy.
_) the question and response are on the list archives which is indexed by 
search engines.
ζ) it feels more like a group of people helping eachother out.

The idea of SIGs having their own mailing list - a Fedora SIG, Debian SIG, 
SuSE SIG, etc - was floated by me today.  I don't think that's a good idea, 
for two reasons.  Firstly it fractures our community - many people are 
familiar with a number of distros but can't be bothered to subscribe to every 
list.  Secondly, most questions fall through the cracks - which list would you 
post an Apache question on, for example; and no-one wants to see the same 
question posted to every list we have just in case...

And I can bet you that nobody is going to put their hand up and say "yes, I 
want the world to email me all their questions!" :-)

So feel free to post away with questions to the list.  You're not 'bothering' 
anyone any more than any other post from the list, and it's highly likely we 
all learn something from the exchange.

OTOH, having install fests and beginners nights is a good way of getting the 
kind of face-to-face help everyone likes for specific types of questions, and 
we aim to do more of those in the future.

Have fun,

Paul


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