Nicholas Butler wrote: > Joseph, > > Thanks for the offer and I can clearly see there is a very robust set of > positions regarding Forums usage. I know we had this conversation before > and felt at the time the Maillist suited the assemblage of current > Ubuntu UK Team members. However in the strictest sense of any community > project there is absolutely nothing stopping you or anyone simply > creating the forums and letting people know they are avialable to use. I > realise that people dont want to split the community but the community > is at its best when it self organises and to that end opportunities > cannot really be defined or restricted by technical demerits or > specifications. So nothing stops the forums being created and we can > add them to the Wiki so people know they are there. If they are > succesful im sure they will thrive and I am sure it will widen to > audience of potential UK Members. It will be a shame though that as a > result of this that some efforts may become duplicated and some > communication will be missed.
Hopefully in the event there will be an elegant method of the one hand knowing what the other hand is doing. > My personal preferences are to use the Mailing list, however if a Forum > exists I will make sure I drop in and keep an eye on it and let people > know about the mailing list and the archvies and the thriving > communication we have here as well as the IRC Channels. (me likewise) I guess that some local areas and also expertise groups may have some different preferences, and also some forums may be limited to the life of certain projects maybe? > Can I assume this has been the consensus of the group ? ok with me, see how it goes -- alan cocks Linux registered user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
