RE: We need a forum!

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

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.
>