[Freeswitch-users] My 2 cents - online community

Mon Feb 26 18:20:33 UTC 2018

Kinda like reddit.com/r/freeswitch? :0

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 9:24 AM, William Simon <wsimon at stratusvideo.com>
wrote:

> Would love an option to upvote / downvote so that great solutions can be
> highlighted and "haiiii i have error please help fix" can be downvoted to
> invisibility.
>
> On Feb 23, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com> wrote:
>
> You are not starting a fire at all.  I understood you to be looking at
> wanting some better sort of forum.  Mailman 3 as i said is the planned
> solution to this as it does a decent job combining a forum and mailing list
> together into one concept, in a way where we don’t have to monitor two
> different things separately and you get the best exposure.  I totally
> understood what you were proposing, was letting you know what the blockers
> to moving forward on this are, and putting it out there a way that you
> could help the community by moving this process forward.  Please jump in
> and assist in moving this process forward if you are willing and able.
> Thanks as always we appreciate the feedback about how we can foster a
> better community.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2018, at 1:23 PM, Fred Pettersson <t90fpe at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you all for feedback. Remember this was just my 2-cents. I just want
> to highlight that I am not saying mailing-list communication is not working
> but there are better options IMO.
>
> Just to clarify - I am talking about an online forum instead of the
> mailing list. To justify the old way just because some user can't use the
> search in an online forum is just for the wrong reason. How many can't use
> them today or even know it's there today. It's a shopping window. I know
> about the FS books, I've bought three of them (paper). They are good but
> they do not cover everything. I know about Confluence, ClueCon Weekly, I
> use YouTube to watch them etc. To be fair I think you are missing my point
> here :) I think there is room for a good place to have discussions with
> others in an easy to use online tool (forum could serve that).
>
> You know what's most "scary" about the whole thing? That's non of you does
> not even consider or elaborates about a change of this but tries to guide
> me how/were instead but I am talking about the community. Where is the
> spirit? :)
>
> As I said I don't want to start a fire here, I want the best for
> FreeSWITCH and make the community to grow. I honestly don't think mailman
> is the most efficient tool in terms of growing the community. I rest my
> case I don't want to start a big thing.
>
> Regards,
> Fred
>
> ------------------------------
> *Från:* FreeSWITCH-users <freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org>
> för Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz at gmail.com>
> *Skickat:* den 23 februari 2018 09:26:23
> *Till:* FreeSWITCH Users Help
> *Ämne:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] My 2 cents - online community
>
> also, don't forget there are 3 FreeSWITCH books out there, each of them
> available in ebook, pdf and printed paper format...
>
> If you can't buy them, you can at least ask a friend in the know to
> provide them to you.
>
> -giovanni
>
>
> On 22 February 2018 at 21:35, <krice at tollfreegateway.com> wrote:
>
> As Paul just said, lists.freeswitch.org contains a complete archive of
> the mailing list. This site is heavily indexed by google.
>
> A hint for searching it is when you google use the “site:
> lists.freeswitch.org” or “site:freeswitch.org” to restrict your google
> queries. This should return anything in the archive relevant to your actual
> query string.
>
> Have fun!
> K
>
> *From:* FreeSWITCH-users [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounc
> es at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Paul Zillmann
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:51 PM
> *To:* freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] My 2 cents - online community
>
> Hello Fred,
>
> I think Google provides a good way of querying the mailing-list, given
> that the subject-line is good and the content isn't just a random
> "Hiiiiiiiii - how to solve command"
> Many projects in the unix-world including operating systems rely heavily
> on mailing-list communication. And that one works fine.
> Could you state more precise what you mean by an online community board?
> In my understanding that would be a forum.
>
> Some users aren't able to use the search functions in such forums either.
> By now I can't see a benefit of an "online community board".
>
> Besides the mailing-list you may participate in the weekly conference call
> and ClueCon weekly.
> Aside from that: don't be afraid to ask on the list and try to apply the
> basic rules you'll find in many online forums: good titles, be respectful,
> and put some effort into your text.
>
> Sincerely,
> Paul
>
> Am 22.02.2018 um 17:33 schrieb Fred Pettersson:
>
> Look I don't wanna start a fire here and have full respect for the team
> behind FreeSWITCH.
>
> It's 2018 right? I am talking about Evolution. Why doesn't the FreeSWITCH
> community have a more up to date online community board? I am talking about
> the mailing lists, why not use a tool to help the community a bit more and
> make it grow?
>
> Today I think it's hard to get a view of all the questions/answers and the
> mailing list archive is not that user friendly. If people more easy can
> search/browse for answers then less questions will be generated. I don't
> see a big and viable community as FreeSWITCH deserves IMO and I am certain
> of getting a online community board will increase the community in that
> sense. This is one of the first things I look for when getting a new
> component or trying to find help. I am still a beginner of FreeSWITCH even
> though I've followed the project for years and I know a community board
> would help me and most likely others.
>
> It's easy to scope/categorize the content of a community board and to
> allow certain discussions of possible configuration errors vs bugs etc, as
> a novice like my self I have a hard time to spot this and when I read
> answers like "bugs are not to discussed on the list - file a Jira". If you,
> like me, don't even know if this is a mistake by myself and get this kind
> of answer I really hesitate to ask.
>
> All I want is the best for FreeSWITCH. What do you think?
>
> /Fred
>
>
>
>
>
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