[Olpc-open] [olpc-support-gang] Going forward with the community forum

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks, Michael.    Having too many community support fora is a nice
quandary to be in...

Ads : we've avoided ads on all of our sites so far, we should surely
continue to do so.  We care a great deal about the smaller details of
interface, and wasting valuble screen real estate (ads are useful in
direct proportion to the usefulness of the screen real estate they eat
up) isn't so small.

Underlying tools : open source is a tremendous win.  we are open
source not only for philosophical reasons, but for practical ones.  We
do want our community tools to be available for reuse at different
levels of community, including at the school and regional level
everywhere; we do not want to create centralized bottlenecks that
can't be easily reproduced elsewhere; and we want to give back to
communities of developers who may one day be solving issues similar to
ours as we make customizations.

--SJ

On Jan 10, 2008 9:18 PM, Michael Burns <maburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> This thread is meant to talk about possible paths the community forum can
> take (with regards to olpchelp.org, and other 3rd-party communities that are
> growing) and how best to get us from here to there. The conversation is
> half-started, so I ask the Peter--admin at olpchelp.org--and the Support
> Gang to pick up where we've left off, catching the community up to speed
> where possible. We have been talking about the potential merging of the 2
> forum sites. From this, a request to replace the software infrastructure has
> been raised, and what features can and cannot be supported with that change.
> It isn't a perfect solution, but at least we can get a larger pool of input.
>
> [Please drop all CC's following this post and move strictly to OLPC-Open.
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>
> Hopefully, posts of substance will follow...
>
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> Michael Burns * Student
> Open Source {Education} Lab