Re: [Gumstix-users] RE: Forum

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

On May 16, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Chris Danis wrote:

> On 5/16/06, Rayjan Wilson <ray...@gm...> wrote:
>> Nobody is saying it can be done with wiki's and email archives.  
>> That's
>> how it's been done so far, and it must have worked well when the
>> gumstix crowd was rather small and most members had similar
>> backgrounds. This isn't the case anymore. It's time for the active
>> content to evolve from the mailing list to the forum.
>
> Ray,
>
> I disagree.  While the wiki could use a lot of work, there's no
> technical reason stopping anyone from doing this work.  And while the
> sf.net email archives are pretty awful, the gmane.org ones are quite
> usable.  I also have all the list traffic from the past several months
> in my gmail account.  I find the current resources perfectly adequate.

If you're a newer user, then you won't have the mailing list archived  
locally; you'll have access to gmane for searching, but you won't  
really (as a new user) have any concept of what the breadth of topics  
are that people post to the list on.  Once you've been on the list  
for a few months, you begin to get the sense, and by passive reading  
of other people's emails, you start to absorb gumstix lore through  
osmosis.  But when you're first trying to get started, I can see how  
it would be hard to find out information that you might want/need.

C