[Koha] Forum board or not forum board - that is the question.

[TSBC Librarian]

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.
 
 
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From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of MJ Ray
Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2008 08:45
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz; cmiddleman at stcames.com
Subject: Re: [Koha] Forum board

Christopher L Middleman <cmiddleman at 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,
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