Hi all! I'm not sure how many of you know, but we now have an official Discourse-based forum for Fedora project conversations. There's even an "Apps & Games" category. As a gamer myself, I know that forums are much more common in that world than mailing lists, and I wonder if that might be a better way to engage new community members and users. There is an "apps and gaming" category already https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/desktop/apps/9 but if there's enough interest we could make a separate Gaming category (as I think the gamer audience is rather different from the postgresql admin panel audience....
Hi,
Old member of the Games SIG here.
On 1/19/21 7:37 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Hi all! I'm not sure how many of you know, but we now have an official Discourse-based forum for Fedora project conversations. There's even an "Apps & Games" category. As a gamer myself, I know that forums are much more common in that world than mailing lists, and I wonder if that might be a better way to engage new community members and users. There is an "apps and gaming" category already https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/desktop/apps/9 but if there's enough interest we could make a separate Gaming category (as I think the gamer audience is rather different from the postgresql admin panel audience....
I think that having a separate gaming category on discourse would be a good idea. With some luck we can get a new generation of Games SIG-ers who can then grow into other roles like old generation of Games SIG-ers.
Regards,
Hans
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:40:17PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
I think that having a separate gaming category on discourse would be a good idea. With some luck we can get a new generation of Games SIG-ers who can then grow into other roles like old generation of Games SIG-ers.
There's not much traffic in either so I'm gonna go ahead and just do it.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 01:44:37PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:40:17PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
I think that having a separate gaming category on discourse would be a good idea. With some luck we can get a new generation of Games SIG-ers who can then grow into other roles like old generation of Games SIG-ers.
There's not much traffic in either so I'm gonna go ahead and just do it.
Tada! https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/desktop/gaming/62
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