Hello, Two Germans suggested to start a forum in addition to the existing mailing list.
Even though it might be a problem to get enough active people to participate, I see no reason for not enabling the forum on the garden as opposed to using some arbitrary web page. Any thoughts, ideas and comments about selection of software for running a forum are welcome. (I was also thinking about HyperNews which is a forum with "mailing list interface".) Mojca On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 20:41, Hannes Riebl wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > my name is Hannes. I've set up the german ConTeXt board on > http://context.pytalhost.de/. > > Yasser asked me to contact you because of our idea to start a german > community platform for ConTeXt. > > We both prefer a board instead of a mailing list because we think it's > easier to use especially for unexperienced users. Another reason is that I'm > not very experienced with mailing lists and have never set up one neither do > I know HyperNews. I personally like PunBB because it's lightwight and easy > to set up and administer. > > In order to have a centralized ConTeXt community you proposed to run the > board on contextgarden.net. I think that's a good idea. Would you provide a > subdomain? Could the board be installed on the same server on which the wiki > running on? At the moment it is running on a free webspace. Therefore we > have ads on the site. > > Waiting for your answer. =) > > Regards, > Hannes ... > We will not get any users for ConTeXt when there is no knowledge in germany. > And some good examples of documents createt with context. > > Our plan is more to write a german book on ConTeXt. Not a reference manual > (who are we to write it) but a step by step instruction how to write a > thesis. Academia and thesises is the main task to be targeted, so want to > write the according book. > > We want to organize it in this forum. To get users will be easy when we can > (I repeat myself here) get a link to the forum in the wikipedia article. I > hope that the responsible admins will include it. > > I hope you got what I meant. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
