Web Forums

[Timothy Ha]

Mark Mealman wrote:

> Are there any plans for some sort of official web forums for Fedora 
> like what Gentoo has at forums.gentoo.org?
>
> I know some people prefer mailing lists, but frankly having worked 
> with only having mailing lists with Debian for 5 years and then having 
> both a mailing list and web forums with Gentoo over the last year, 
> I've found the Gentoo web forums to be invaluable.
>
> A weekly newsletter, web forums for casual banter, mailing lists for 
> more hard core work and the IRC channels for instant help I believe 
> have helped Gentoo build one of the most solid user communities 
> around, which in turn has made it one of the fastest growing 
> distributions this year.
>
> I see in Fedora a great technical base and a lot of growth potential, 
> but is its community going to be restricted to just mailing lists and 
> IRC? I think that would be a shame.
>
FYI, if you would like to create a Fedora forum:

Phorum (www.phorum.org) has the ability to integrate a forum and mailing 
list.

You can post to a forum just by sending an email to the forum's email 
address. The mailserver forwards your email to the script, which then 
posts to the online forum.

So those sitting in the mailing list don't need to visit the forum. But 
online surfers may benefit from the forum very much.

Or maybe someone can use MHonArc to format Fedora List to dress like a 
forum, and register an email for the forum visitors to ask questions 
into the list :-) A thing like this can be done without a sanction from 
Redhat.

Timothy.