i have to jump on here about the "opportunities to be apathetic" statement. joey, don't take this personally, but you're the president of this organization. calling the activities of its denizens apathetic doesn't seem very positive nor is it very 'leader-like'.
i'm with trey. what we're doing right now isn't working. we have half a dozen participants and no one is really learning anything. if trey wants to make a forum, i'm all for it. in fact, i'd rather use that than this mailing list. mailing lists are very old technology. why not move into some other venues. rss maybe sometime? forum and new websites are better than what we have now.
we need some injection of life into this organization... or disolve it - one way or another. it's dead already... someone just needs to kick some dirt on it.
that's just my opinion, i could be wrong.
trey, i'm logging onto your forum right now.
Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote: On Sunday 10 September 2006 08:54, Trey Fox wrote:
> Well if we make our own forum, it will be open more open to the public. I
> know that there are a lot of people who don't really like mailing lists.
> Some people are more comfortable with forums. It also becomes a way to
> better watch the content, and remove unwanted content.
Back when Scott ran the website, he set up PHPBB or whatever, which lasted
about a year or so. Few people posted to it.
Anyhow, we have a mailing list, a wiki, an irc channel, and now a weblog, and
there isn't a lot of activity on any of these forums. IMHO, adding more
opportunities for people to be apathetic is a lose-lose proposition.
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