[Freeswitch-users] My 2 cents - online community

Mon Feb 26 20:16:34 UTC 2018

Only think that bothers me is that this solution now is filling my inbox

2018-02-26 19:20 GMT+01:00 Brian West <brian at freeswitch.com>:

> 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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