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quim.gil at nokia

Sep 23, 2009, 3:29 AM

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Brainstorm discussion split between Brainstorm and Talk

Hi, we have http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/ with a possibility to
post comments but until now what has happened is that most discussion
happens in http://talk.maemo.org

This is why I proposed

http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/brainstorm_discussion_split_between_brainstorm_and_talk/

Until now the (few) votes are clearly leaning towards using Talk, but
this is not surprising because the proposal was advertised only in Talk

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31755

This is the reason to post the question here as well. Please go to the
Brainstorm idea and vote your preferred option. Thank you!

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gary at eyetraxx

Sep 23, 2009, 3:12 PM

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Re: Brainstorm discussion split between Brainstorm and Talk [In reply to]

Where does this leave the mailing lists? I have not qualms with message
boards and other HTTP based fora but in this day and age, one ought to
consider making two way mirrors if moving from one media to another.
Microsoft has done something similarly silly as well... they started off
with their own Usenet news server and allowed those groups to be
distributed worldwide. Then in the past few years they went and made web
based mirrors of those groups but then started adding new web fora that
weren't based on Usenet groups. Now they have about a half dozen
different message boards -- some for end users, some for beta testers,
others for developers, etc. I'd prefer not to see the same kind of
splintering happen here.

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quim.gil at nokia

Sep 23, 2009, 10:29 PM

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Re: Brainstorm discussion split between Brainstorm and Talk [In reply to]

Hi,

ext Gary wrote:
> Where does this leave the mailing lists? I have not qualms with message
> boards and other HTTP based fora but in this day and age, one ought to
> consider making two way mirrors if moving from one media to another.

My opinion is that there is no sane way to discuss and evaluate dozens
of feature requests simultaneously in a web forum, leave alone a mailing
list where all subscribers receive everything.

The brainstorm offers you a way to define a problem, propose well framed
solutions, have people voting them at will and leave little room to
extra noise.

> Microsoft has done something similarly silly as well... they started off
> with their own Usenet news server and allowed those groups to be
> distributed worldwide. Then in the past few years they went and made web
> based mirrors of those groups but then started adding new web fora that
> weren't based on Usenet groups. Now they have about a half dozen
> different message boards -- some for end users, some for beta testers,
> others for developers, etc. I'd prefer not to see the same kind of
> splintering happen here.

Propose a solution at
http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/brainstorm_discussion_split_between_brainstorm_and_talk/
or at least propose it here, please.

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Quim Gil
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Maemo Devices @ Nokia
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gary at eyetraxx

Sep 25, 2009, 9:36 AM

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Re: Brainstorm discussion split between Brainstorm and Talk [In reply to]

Quim Gil wrote:
> My opinion is that there is no sane way to discuss and evaluate dozens
> of feature requests simultaneously in a web forum, leave alone a mailing
> list where all subscribers receive everything.
>

Understood and agreed. I should apologize for straying off topic from
your original post as I was taking the opportunity to bemoan the
existence of both web fora and mailing lists on maemo.org. From an end
user perspective -- especially for newbies -- it's difficult to know
where the best option lies for posing questions to the community as the
populations of one or the other might not necessarily overlap. Hence my
drawn out complaint about Microsoft's history of community support fora
meant only as an extreme example of one company's mismanaged history of
schizophrenic interaction with the public... We now resume our regularly
scheduled program, "Herding Cats in the High Sierra." *grin*

-Gary
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