Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Corey Quinn
On Sep 11, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Greg R wrote: > The drive to have a community of professionals helping each other is what > started this whole thread. And, indeed, LOPSA as a whole. -- Corey___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Greg R wrote: > ** > This is why I think LOPSA-people are a great fit for ServerFault. We do > this kind of thing for a living, says so right in the title. And by doing > it for a living, we do it in our workplaces, which makes it topical. And by > filtering the s

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Greg R
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:12:37 -0400, Florian Heigl wrote: I think it also matters that most sysadmins have signed some stuff that definitely doesn't allow them to share anything about their daily work. Of course companies are suppressing any useful exchange that way, but [ ... "thats what we h

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Greg R
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:24:43 -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Peter Grace wrote: Just so you are all aware, we are VERY interested in finding ways of growing ServerFault's community and participation.  As some of you may know, ServerFault has a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Greg R
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:50:15 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Moose Finklestein The big question is (I think) -- what does having forums get you that mailing lists do not? People who prefer

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Elijah Wright
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Florian Heigl wrote: > I think it also matters that most sysadmins have signed some stuff > that definitely doesn't allow them to share anything about their daily > work. Of course companies are suppressing any useful exchange that > way, but [ ... "thats what we

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Florian Heigl
2012/9/11 Brandon Allbery : > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Peter Grace wrote: >> >> Just so you are all aware, we are VERY interested in finding ways of >> growing ServerFault's community and participation. As some of you may know, >> ServerFault has a strong, awesome community, but we're bu

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread david
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Moose Finklestein The big question is (I think) -- what does having forums get you that mailing lists do not? People who prefer forums. And peop

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Peter Grace wrote: > Just so you are all aware, we are VERY interested in finding ways of > growing ServerFault's community and participation. As some of you may > know, ServerFault has a strong, awesome community, but we're bummed that it > doesn't quite have t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Peter Grace
As a SysAdmin at Stack Exchange, I just want to say thanks to all of you who've shown support for our sites! It's awesome to sit down to a ML thread and see our work so highly regarded. Just so you are all aware, we are VERY interested in finding ways of growing ServerFault's community and partic

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Corey Quinn
On Sep 11, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Matt Simmons wrote: > Here's a devops group I subscribe to, as an example: > > https://groups.google.com/group/devops Needs a unicorn mascot. :-p And I miss the days of Usenet being a viable entity; web forums are great and all, but between the available options

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Matt Simmons
As I understand it, this is the idea of Google Groups. You can subscribe via email, but then you also get the web interface. It's almost gmail like online. Here's a devops group I subscribe to, as an example: https://groups.google.com/group/devops * * --Matt * * On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:54 AM,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Gary Pitman > > My thoughts were initially more along the lines of sharing the technical > information in the list with non members to promote membership by > showing up in web search engine results.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Moose Finklestein > > The big question is (I think) -- what does having forums get you that > mailing lists do not? People who prefer forums. And people who google for something and then want to joi