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2009-03-18 , 01:14
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
One of the biggest annoyances to me as a member of the Maemo community, who prefers the ITT forums, is the fragmentation I see in the community. Some hang out on the mailing lists, some hang out on IRC, and others hang out on ITT.
Unfortunately not everybody has the time or patience to frequent all three.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
First, I think maemo.org should also host the #maemo IRC logs and
any other IRC logs pertaining to Maemo.
Talk to mgedmin and X-Fade. It's certainly an option, and I suspect mgedmin might just as soon be rid of the overhead, but he runs the bot and the log archives, so it's really up to him.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
It needs to be easy, once you are logged into maemo.org, to participate in all of the areas of community activity. This means easy web browsing of the mailing lists' archives, preferably in a threaded format. It probably would be best if the e-mail headers were replaced with maemo.org profile boxes. In short, it should be as easy to browse the mailing lists as it is to browse the forums, if not easier.
This was the plan (the beginnings of which are already up), unfortunately the Midgard module for it really needed a lot of work to get up to speed and it sort of fell by the wayside to stuff like the site redesign.

The Talk transition should make the whole thing a bit easier, the importer and posting mechanisms will just need to be tied to vBulletin.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
Active mailing list and forum threads should be promoted to the maemo.org front page just like planet posts.
Also the plan (you can see what it might end up looking like on some of the redesign mockups floating around), we'll need to finalize a metric for promotion, though.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
  • Maemo wiki
  • Maemo talk (forums)
  • Maemo news / planet / announcements
  • maemo-* mailing lists
  • Maemo downloads
  • Maemo garage
s/Maemo/maemo.org/g
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