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
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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?
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Take care,
Ty
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