There may be a forum, but such a thing cannot be expected to succeed if there's competition with an already established list. Such a thing would have to replace the mailing list to succeed. I believe this would help the FreeSWITCH effort amongst newer users and lead to much faster growth. The barrier to entry of a mailing list is a tad too high for some since it presents an impression, justified or not, that the list is where the elite hang out and is off-limits for newbies, whereas with a tidier forum setup that would allow for a "Newbies Corner" might avoid this. Mailing lists are showing their age these days - as demonstrated by the difficulty in responding to this on digest mode - I have to strip away every other thread first.<div>
<br></div><div>I'm convinced that a full shift to newer, better organised and more friendly technology would only be a good thing for the FreeSWITCH project. Does anyone agree, or am I out on my own on this one?<br><div>
<br clear="all">Regards,<br>Ben Langfeld<br><br>Wave > Email<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:11 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-request@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users-request@lists.freeswitch.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Michael S Collins <<a href="mailto:msc@freeswitch.org">msc@freeswitch.org</a>><br>
To: "<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a>><br>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:54:15 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH Mailing List - Why not a forum?<br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>There *IS* a forum. A volunteer set it up a few years ago and promised to maintain it. The fact that you can't find it is proof positive that a forum just isn't the best choice for this particular online community. I'd say the nabble site is your best option. </div>
<div><br></div><div>-MC<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 27, 2010, at 4:51 AM, William Suffill <<a href="mailto:william.suffill@gmail.com" target="_blank">william.suffill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
</div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>It's been brought up before. I don't recall exactly all the +/- discussed but there are some alternatives for the user depending on their preference. Digest can get a bit annoying in high volume. The list is archived in various places (<a href="http://Gmane.org" target="_blank">Gmane.org</a>,<a href="http://nabble.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://nabble.com" target="_blank">nabble.com</a>)<br>
<br>Nabble does provide a forum style interface to the current list if you rather follow it that way.<br><a href="http://n2.nabble.com/freeswitch-users-f2379917.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://n2.nabble.com/freeswitch-users-f2379917.html" target="_blank">http://n2.nabble.com/freeswitch-users-f2379917.html</a><br>
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