[CUWiN-Dev] fyi: wireless wiki abuse

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi Haudy & Dave,

Haudy Kazemi wrote:
>>The discussion forums can also go.  The discussion forums are so
>>nearly empty, one person is moved to write on them, "The postings here
>>seem rather spotty. I'm wondering if this means that the interest in
>>muniwireless is losing steam...  and losing steam because if price
>>cutting by SBC."  Sean responds, "It is likely that responses and
>>activity in this forum have dropped because CUWIN is focusing their
>>energy on their software development and not because the municipal
>>wireless movement is dying."  Actually, the activity drops because the
>>web discussion forums are perfectly redundant with the mailing lists;
>>developers scarcely read them.  My recommendation: make the right sidebar
>>refer readers to our mailing lists and archives, and ditch the forums.
> 
> I prefer mailing lists + searchable archives instead of forums.  For cases
> where forums are desired, I like forums to have mail2forum and forum2mail
> gateways so that people can follow and respond to forum threads either via
> email or via a website.  I know there are (free) gateway addons for the
> phpBB forum.  Also, rather than actually removing the (minimally used)
> forum, I'd recommend disabling any additional postings and suggest that
> people go to the mailing list instead.  My opinion is that the posts in the
> forum should remain online, and not be directed to the bit bucket (digital
> dustbin).  (Actually I hold that opinion about most online material, as I
> really dislike broken URLs and references to materials once available but
> no longer available online).

I've made some changes to the cuwireless.net website based on your feedback. 
Keep the good ideas coming.

--Sascha

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