[H-GEN] request for comments: beginners list

[Sarah Walters]

Me too!

On 07/04/2008, Arjen Lentz <arjen at lentz.com.au> wrote:
>
> I think the idea is good, but you do need to pick the medium to suit.
> An online forum is probably the most appropriate.
> Others can follow through RSS or email if they wish, modern forum
> systems support that kind of foo ;-)


RSS is awesome, and I would be more likely to be available to assist if my
feed reader told me that there was a new question than if it was just on a
forum. The advantage of a forum is that people can sign up easily and see
the other answers without having to go through some archive system. Also,
people are hesitant to sign up to mailing lists because they often end up
full of spam and it displays their personal email address.

Newbies are much more likely to use an online forum than they are
> subscribing to a mailing list.
> This may, actually, be something that could be done best on a national
> level through LinuxAU, and it'd be great if each local LUG actively
> participated in it with various people. But locally could work fine
> too, and reduce the size of the individual forums so that people don't
> get scared by high traffic. As long they get busy enough to look
> alive, it's fine.


I think co-ordinating with LinuxAU would be a good idea, but there's nothing
to prevent HUMBUG setting up a forum server and then extending an invitation
to bring it under the LinuxAU umbrella.

Sarah
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