[CUWiN-Dev] fyi: wireless wiki abuse

[David Young]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:07:38PM -0600, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> 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.

It's looking better, thanks!

Dave

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