I would be reluctant to see Koha information split up too much. It does slow things down having so many emails coming in but I have also learned many things which I would not have thought to search for. Splitting them away will lose that serendipity factor (unless an email at least notifies everyone of a new upload). I think the most important thing is to have clear descriptive subject headings. Rae (Rachel) Jones Librarian The Shepherd’s Bible College 354 Te Aute Road, Havelock North 4172 P.O. Box 8229, Havelock North 4157 New Zealand Ph. +64 6 877-8013 Fax. +64 6 877-5821 Mob: +64 21 059 7464 Email: library@tsbc.org.nz TSBC Homepage: www.tsbc.org.nz -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2008 08:45 To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz; cmiddleman@stcames.com Subject: Re: [Koha] Forum board Christopher L Middleman <cmiddleman@stcames.com> wrote:
I have been on the mailing list for a while and it has it good points but I was wondering if maybe if it is time to start a forum board instead.
There is already a user web forum at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.koha
This way whe could break up information into units such as intalling, migration, updating, database, etc. We could further break down units like installing into Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat , 64 bit, etc.
That sounds like a way to "divide and conk out" - splitting our resources too thinly to be able to help some people and eating up more time into overheads like managing the forum. If it happens, though, I hope we can use something with a better interface than linuxforums.org's vBulletin. I hate vBulletin and its terrible user interface, and we should use free software instead anyway.
In each of these sections we could add the latest install walk throughs as a sticky at the top. [...]
Could that be done better with a more easily editable wiki or a web board targetted specifically at developing tutorials? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.7/1286 - Release Date: 18-02-2008 18:49 Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.7/1286 - Release Date: 18-02-2008 18:49