On Thu, 31 May 2007 17:47:14 -0700, microUgly wrote:
I'd be happy to buy a domain name and host an Inkscape forum. I already pay for a host that's grossly underused for my personal website.
Egads, ANOTHER Inkscape forum? Don't we have enough already?
Creating yet another discussion forum creates yet another community division, another place for people to get answers to their questions, another place for people to have to go to see if anyone can answer their question....It's not good for the community!
These mailing lists are accessible through several web-based interfaces as well as NNTP. Options for everyone - there shouldn't be a NEED to create yet another Inkscape community and increase the fragmentation that's already here!
Sorry if I sound frustrated, but this seems to come up on various lists I subscribe to about every 3 months - someone has the novel idea of creating a "forum" using vBulletin or BBchat or WibbleChatGadget or some other "hot" new discussion area, without considering that they're fragmenting the community rather than uniting it. It gets very tiresome to go "OK, now I have a question about Inkscape, do I go to the Inkscape- Users list, InkscapeWorld, InkscapeForums, InkscapeLovers, InkscapeProfessionalsForum, InkscapeRandomIdeasGroups, InkscapeYadaForum, InkscapeNewUsersForums, InkscapeUsersWithFuzzyCats, InkscapeThisForum, InkscapeThatForum, or InkscapeUniverse to get an answer because the expertise is so dispersed amongst all these places.
(Note that many of the above listed "groups" don't (yet) exist - it's exaggeration to make a point)
Jim