From: Jack P. <ch...@gm...> - 2007-03-23 15:31:24
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Great news! I never worked on setting up a forum, however if "skinning forum" means writing appropiate CSS, I can help on that. Chook 2007/3/22, Vadim Macagon <va...@cu...>: > > eric werner wrote: > > Hi Nebula-Fans! > > > > I'd very much support the idea of setting up a nebula-device forum!! > > > > I know we once did that and it didn't run very well what is partly my > very > > own guiltiness: I was asked to make a nebula skinning for the SMF and as > I > > always am, I couldn't say no. But I just didn't find the time besides > > working at RadonLabs. > > When I finally made the first tests the forum wasn't working good > anymore. > > Database and drawing errors... So I finally lost courage on it. I'm very > > sorry about that. Please pardon me. > > > > BUT! : I see very much projects do very very well with a forum! > > The possibilities compared to that mailinglist are enormous!! > > Multiple topics, getting mails to only specific topics, answermails, > links, > > images, polls... And most important IMHO: the stuff gets saved for the > > future. So you don't have to answer stuff again and again to newbies > that > > are afraid of mailinglists anyhow. (I know nabble does that too with the > > mailinglist. But nabble just looks messy. It perfectly fits to almost > all > > points Tom said.) > > > > So what do you say? > > Set it up once again? > > There are dozens of cool feature-packed but slim and fast forum-packages > out > > there. > > Its not about the skin! That may change. But I'd team up with someone > else > > to skin it again. Alone I cannot kick my ass myself enough. ;] > > > > For Toms post: I know moderating can be very demanding! Whould I do that > in > > my free time? Yes but also not alone! Nebula is a big project. I'm no > > programmer. We need some peeps that do that job! If we'd have it look > and > > feel like nebuladevice.org I bet it whould be worth and be encouraging > > enough! > > > > Greetings : eRiC from RadonLabs > > Hi, > > Before anyone wastes anymore of their time arguing for/against a > forum... as Eric mentioned we agreed to open a forum on nebuladevice.org > a while back. Personally I don't see any real advantages to having a > forum in addition to a mailing list, but we got fed up arguing about it. > Some maintenance needs to be performed before we can open the forum, I > expect that to be done in the next week or two. If anyone wants to team > up with Eric to make a Nebula skin for the forum that'd be great. > > > -+ enlight +- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > *** NOTE: To reply to the list use "reply to all", *** > *** to reply direct to the sender use "reply" *** > _______________________________________________ > Nebuladevice-discuss mailing list > Neb...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nebuladevice-discuss > |