[K12OSN] Opinions on a Forum

[Shane Sammons]

Ok, so hearing all the opinions, I tried using the K12LTSP wiki (powered by
phpwiki). I do not know if it is phpWiki or what, but I created my username
(that took awhile as it doesn't have good instructions). Then I wanted to
create a nice page on the Dell GX1's so I could start a nice Wiki page on
that...

Well lets just say I will be starting a new topic soon if I get the
mediaWiki (the thing that powers Wikipedia) working on a test server. I
absolutely think the phpwiki is horrible, and think things could be better
somewhere. Since everyone seems used to mailing lists (which I
hate...because I hate email and all the work involved in
cleaning/organizing..gmail helps...still 20-30 emails a day ICK!) I would
like to persue the Wiki side if possible.

So, I guess I will see how branched out this community/mail list is. I found
it via K12LTSP, so I am not sure if I should try and get a better wiki going
for that or what. I will see once I am sure I can get a "better" wiki
running.

Thanks again for you inputs.

On 11/14/06, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:00 -0500, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
> >
> Consider digest mode. Quickly scan the topics you want to read and chuck
> the rest. There are usually 10-15 posts per digest that I receive unless
> it's a slow day.
>
> I vote elist and wiki. Forums are great for hobbyists but a lot of us
> have schools to admin and need the collective brainpower when disaster
> strikes. I host a couple of forums, I'm a forum kind of guy, which are
> great but for this task, I must say, the list works better.
>
> A wiki would better organize our collective experience than having it
> spread about 10 different threads and the poor newbie hamstrung because
> they didn't enter a good search string. For example, if they search
> audio, to get audio going, every thread that someone posted a portion of
> their lts.conf would show up, too, even if those topics were about
> screen resolutions.
>
> regards,
> William
>
> > One more positive side about forums is that I can subscribe to a topic
> > that
> > I want to follow. In mailing list there is no option for that if we
> > won't
> > count delete button ;)
> >
> > If you get about 50 e-mails in 24 hours (60% of them at the time I'm
> > sleeping) then it's a lot of work to filter out the things I want to
> > read
> > and things I do not. :)
> >
> > Meelis
> >
> >
>
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