I second Soren's position - anything which is not streaming into my workflow and does not allow a two clicks response (Reply/Send) is doomed to stay out of focus and turn into ignored noise rather than a productivity tool.
Dimitar Boyn Collaboration Software Group SaaS Cloud Platform Architect dib...@cisco.com Phone: +1(408)566-4265 Mobile: +1(650)996-9008 Cisco Systems, Inc. 3979 Freedom Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 United States www.cisco.com -----Original Message----- From: openstack-bounces+diboyn=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+diboyn=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Soren Hansen Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 4:10 PM To: Jordan Rinke Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Creating a forum It's certainly a matter of personal preference, but I absolutely hate forums. I hate that I cannot interact with them using clients that I choose. No, the fact that I can choose between different web browsers doesn't count. E-mail and usenet, for instance, are excellent means for communication. I hate that I have to poll forums to see if anything new is happening. E-mail notifications from forums frustrate me even more, because I can't just reply to the e-mail to respond to the thread. Give me a forum that has an NNTP interface, and we can talk. :) I totally understand that I'm reasonably alone in this (the endless amount of forums with even more endless amounts of users all over the Internet clearly demonstrates that I'm at least a minority), so don't let me hold you guys back if you all love forums. I just know from experience that try as I might, I'm not likely to maintain any sort of motivation to participate in forums for any useful amount of time. It may be a cultural thing, so it may work out completely differently for OpenStack, but I think the number of Ubuntu core developers who frequent the Ubuntu forums can be counted on one hand. Probably even with fingers to spare. -- Soren Hansen | http://linux2go.dk/ Ubuntu Developer | http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer | http://www.openstack.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
