RE: We need a forum!

["Brett Kapilik" <brett@...>]

Sorry, I got my own URL wrong...

http://www.icynorth.com/forums/

- This is why we need an editable forum ;) (kidding)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Kapilik 
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:18 AM
> To: Lua list
> Subject: RE: We need a forum!
> 
> 
> I deleted the forum from Icy North because of lack of 
> interest.  In a couple of months there were only a couple of 
> posts. I have no commercial interest in having the forums on 
> MY site inparticular, I would love to see fourms anywhere.  
> From my experience with my day job (www.indigorose.com) we 
> have found forums to be an extremely effective way of 
> communicating and creating a community.
> 
> That being said, I have re-created a Lua forum at 
> http://www.icynorth.com/fourms.  How about this, everyone who 
> is interested in getting Lua forums going can go there and 
> discuss the pros and cons of such a move and we can discuss 
> what main forums that we want to see as well as discussing 
> moderation, etc.  If the interest is there I will leave the 
> fourm up for now until we decide upon a permanent location.  
> I would personally be willing to front the money for a domain 
> name for a year and the first 3 months of Web space for 
> www.luaforums.com (or whatever).  I know of several good Web 
> hosting spots where we can go for like $10 per month.  So all 
> of you forum lovers, come on over and let's get proactive 
> about this - put in a post so I can try to gauge how much 
> interest there is.
> 
> As a side, I thought that one cool thing would be to have 
> volunteers keep a mirror of this Lua mailing list in the 
> fourms, if they come to be.  That way it is the best of both 
> worlds.  I have no lack of ideas but I don't want to go at it 
> alone and especially if the interest is not there.  I have 
> enough to do in life already ;)
> 
> - Brett Kapilik
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo [mailto:lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 5:38 AM
> > To: lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
> > Subject: Re: We need a forum!
> > 
> > 
> > >Just for the record, I strongly prefer the mailing list.
> > 
> > Just for the record, so do I.
> > 
> > On the other hand, we the Lua team obviously want to the Lua 
> > community as best
> > as we can. I'm all in favor of creating a forum, but we the 
> > team cannot do it.
> > The place to do it is at lua-users (see its charter). Of 
> > course, it doesn't
> > have to be physically at lua-users (what does "physically" 
> > mean anyway in the
> > internet?). We just need some DNS magic and a link for it the 
> > forum lua-users.
> > 
> > Perhaps we can simply reactivate the forums kindly created at 
> > Icy North
> > Technologies by Brett Kapilik? Does anyone knows why they 
> > have died? Lack
> > of interest?
> > 
> > Also, does anyone know whether the chat room has any traffic 
> > at all? I've tried
> > it a couple of times and there seemed to be no one.
> > 
> > Bottom line: let's stop discussing tastes and do something 
> > about it. If the
> > community wants a forum, just create one. You don't need a 
> > blessing from the
> > Lua team.
> > 
>