===== ABSTRACT: Looking for more cooperation between KDE Community Forums and OS teams.
===== FULL MESSAGE: Hello all, We're hoping to get in touch with members of the k...@freebsd, k...@mac, k...@solaris, k...@windows and other OS-specific teams. We would like to make a few suggestions that could be of benefit to us all. These suggestions concern SVN/CVS commit messages, sending forum posts to IRC channels, sending forum posts to Jabber accounts, hosting private, restricted forums for your team, and linking to subforums at forum.kde.org. While KDE gains popularity, it gets less 'nerdy'. Altough we all agree this is a good thing, we must also be aware of the fact that new ways of communicating must be investigated: many of the new users (and even some of the old ones) may prefer other channels of communication than IRC or mailing lists. The KDE Community Forums [1] try to fill a gap here. We are aware of the fact that developers (usually) prefer IRC and mailing lists. We are also aware of the fact that many users don't. This is why we developed (and will continue to develop) a few ways to bring these ways of communication together. On top of that, forums have a few advantages over IRC and mailing lists: - everybody knows how to use a forum, unlike IRC or mailing lists - messages posted to a forum are saved and searchable - forums are moderated - forums bring people in different timezones together - forums look more attractive; this may not be important to developers, but it is to users - our forum centralizes knowledge about many applications and platforms into 1 location The KDE Community Forums have no intention to replace IRC or mailing lists; we try to complement them. ----- SVN/CVS commit messages. You've probably noticed that commits to the KDE SVN repository are posted to our forum; these are commits to the official KDE trunk. However, we imagine all OS specific teams have SVN or CVS repositories of their own. We would like to invite you to contact us to have commit messages for your repositories posted to our board as well; those messages would be posted to a (OS specific) subforum of the Commits forum at KDE Community Forums [2]. Since our forum can generate RSS and Atom feeds for each forum [3], an additional advantage may be that users can read commit messages in their news reader. If you are a member of one of the forementioned teams, and you are interested in posting commit messages to KDE Community Forums, contact us at ad...@forum.kde.org. ----- Forum posts to IRC. Developers prefer to communicate on IRC; users prefer to communicate at forums. For this reason we developed a way to have new threads to specified (sub)forums at KDE Community Forums to be posted to specified IRC channels [4]. With this, a development/porting team can keep track of posts to our forum without having to visit KDE Community Forums (and obviously this is also possible for posts to the Commits forum we mentioned above). If you are a member of one of the forementioned teams, and you are interested in having new threads to one or more forums sent to an IRC channel, contact us at skrea...@forum.kde.org or join #kde-forum at irc.kde.org. ----- Forum posts to Jabber. JabberBot is a plugin for MyBB (the forum software) we developed to sent new posts to Jabber accounts [5]. If you are interested in having new posts to certain forums be sent to your Jabber account: - log in at forum.kde.org - click the link UserCP in the top-left of the page - in the menu, select 'Edit profile' - fill in your Jabber ID - hit the 'Save' button - in the menu, select 'Change settings' - check 'Enable Jabber notifications for subscriptions' - hit the 'Save' button - subscribe to the forums you wish to receive notifications about (there is a Subscribe link at the top of each thread listing) ----- Private, restricted forums. KDE Community Forums would like to offer you the opportunity to host your own private, restricted forums to be used by your team. These forums would be invisible and inaccessible to people who are not members of your team. This would give you as a team a central location to store reminders, to hold discussions you would like to save for the future, and to have discussions with members who are hard to reach, for example because they are in different timezones. If you are a member of one of the forementioned teams, and you are interested in hosting your private, restricted forums at KDE Community Forums, contact us at ad...@forum.kde.org. ----- Linking to 'your' forum. You've probably noticed that KDE Community Forums have forums for all OSs KDE is ported to (or at least for all OSs that have a *.kde.org subdomain). It would be appreciated if you would link to these forums from the homepage of your project. The correct links would be: - FreeBSD: http://forum.kde.org/freebsd-f-62.html - Mac: http://forum.kde.org/mac-f-60.html - Solaris: http://forum.kde.org/solaris-f-61.html - Windows: http://forum.kde.org/windows-f-59.html If you would like to display new posts to 'your' forum at your website, please check out our RSS and Atom feed generator [3]. If you are a member of a team that ports KDE to an OS not in the above list, and you are interested in having a forum for k...@your_os, contact us at ad...@forum.kde.org. ----- If you have any other suggestions that could be of benefit to you and/or us, please contact us. Sincerely, The KDE Community Forums team [1] http://forum.kde.org [2] http://forum.kde.org/commits-f-30.html [3] http://forum.kde.org/misc.php?action=syndication [4] http://forum.kde.org/skreamer-brings-forum-kde-org-to-irc-channels-t-29872.html [5] http://forum.kde.org/new-plugin-jabberbot-t-10106.html -- forum.kde.org Communicate. administrator team: ad...@forum.kde.org moderator team: m...@forum.kde.org IRC bot team: skrea...@forum.kde.org news suggestions: n...@forum.kde.org _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
