Re: [GM-help] GM popularity

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Aron Sogor wrote:

> Consider using google groups/code. By no means I suggest you move your
> project simply use their more functional mailing groups and wiki to improve
> documentation and make it easier to post demos making your community
> more accessible.

In what way is Google Groups a benefit?  I still recall being blocked 
for a couple of years from posting to the only Google Group that I am 
intentionally a member of.  Regardless of successful login, and 
captcha entry, I could not even post to the group since Google decided 
(perhaps based on Google web hits for my email address) that I am a 
spammer.  Google offers virtually no support options.  If it does not 
work for you, then you are totally out of luck.  I see that someone 
managed to forge my id and add me to a Google Group (along with 15,500 
others).

According to Google's own policy, someone who offers a lot of support 
to others via Google Groups will be arbitrarily blocked from posting 
to the group. 
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46490

I do think that a user-driven Wiki or Faq-o-Matic would be quite 
useful.  The GraphicsMagick forums already see some traffic.

SourceForge does offer some interesting features that we don't 
currently have enabled:

   Document Manager
   Gallery2
   Laconica
   LimeSurvey
   MediaWiki
   phpBB
   Wikispaces
   Wordpress

Some of these take considerable commitment and could take a few days 
or a few weeks of time to achieve success.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/