Personally, I'd love to see the members of this list use a form; I'm conscious of people within the community preferring to email as a more familiar and comfortable medium, so a feature that could archive emails as a form thread would be nice if such a thing exists. For the rest of us, having proper threading, categories, etc makes sense and is the modern way of disseminating information (ala stackoverflow). A few other ideas: - irc: this is the way most technologist communicate in real-time and I don't see why people here can't do the same. This could also cut down on the one-liners, tangential rantings, etc. - svn/git/mercurial: code *belongs* on a scm system for a variety of reasons. It's clumsy to email snippets of code and unhelpful to get code that is incomplete or wrong. Complete examples help a lot and can push discussion past the basics to something more substantial. - user profiles: to have a place to contact people offline, to get their contact info for Skype, etc. - wiki's: helpful, but hard to maintain. Basically, it sounds like a social network to use the buzz term of the day :) would fit the bill. I'm sure we have enough experience with those of us left on list to implement one from scratch or hack up a cms to do it. You'd have to get a number of people with stable time commitments to build something worthwhile, but using preexisting services takes no time at all. On 9/3/11, Stanzel, Susan - FSA, Kansas City, MO <susan.stanzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think code should reside on nonvisualdevelopment.org. > > Susie Stanzel > > > -----Original Message----- > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield, > Tyler > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 9:03 AM > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: new resource:thoughts, comments, etc > > Hello: > We have started talking about different methods for sharing information; > a forum and a wiki has already been discussed here. > As everything currently stands, we've done no planning about what sort > of information we will be sharing, but we've had plenty of hosting > offers--great. > Now, I have a question. We're looking at making all this, a wiki, a > forum, etc. How many people would care to use a forum for this list? As > for a wiki, why aren't we putting stuff up on nonvisualdevelopment.org, > where Jim has already put in a lot of work, as opposed to creating > -another- wiki somewhere else? > > -- > > Take care, > Ty > my website: > http://tds-solutions.net > my blog: > http://tds-solutions.net/blog > skype: st8amnd127 > My programs don't have bugs; they're randomly added features! > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind