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[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:41 PM, John Kennedy <jakenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  On 7/6/2010 10:29 PM, Jacob Peddicord wrote:
>>
>> I find that forums are more far-reaching than mailing lists are, as
>> many find them easier to use. Perhaps we should post some of our
>> ideas/announcements in the future there as well?
>
> I agree with Jacob.  I do get a number of mailing lists (probably too many
> for good management), but with a forum you have "one" web link that contains
> lots of postings;
>
>> I like MLs just as much as the next person here, but I think we may be
>> missing out on a bunch of people on the forums.
>
> vs. the ML that can produce lots of messages that have to be opened (and if
> it's a popular topic, the replies could become unmanageable.
>
> I also agree with the previous message about the IRC,  I just can't find the
> time to "be there" as my schedule may not fit well with the majority of the
> IRC group.  And a personal note, I have a hard time following treads when in
> a "room".  The conversation goes too fast and I get lost when postings I
> read are for something said regarding a posting many posts ago.  With the
> forum, I can go at my speed and with most forums, I can reply right below
> the post I was responding to.  I feel that I better understand what is going
> on and can be more active in the forum (like I am doing right now with an
> e-mail).
>
> I also like the idea of having a chance to have a LoCo meeting in person at
> OLF.  It's too hard for me to get to the OSU-Panera for the Ubuntu Hours,
> but maybe a quarterly gathering of the LoCo for some sort of activity (maybe
> lasting a couple of hours or so making the drive worthwhile) would be a good
> idea.

Yeah, not a bad idea. Who wants to task that?

>
>
> john
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Yeah, not a bad idea. Who wants to task that?

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