Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[James Wilkinson]

So what about those of us who are trying to support the end users? Will
we at least get web fora that are usable for us?

Will I be able, as an individual user, to flag threads and posts for
later attention (when I've had a chance to think, or got to the right
location with the right software to check out a problem)?

Will the software automatically mark which threads and which posts I've
read, to help me catch up with what I've read and what I haven't read?

(And that's without such niceties as "scoring based on poster and on
topic", which is what keeps the list sane for me).

I know you say that "fedora-list and fedora-test-list would NOT close".
But you will still need knowledgeable people on the fora to do the user
support, and we're going to need fora that are enjoyable enough for us
to want to use them. If we find we're battling the software, if we move
on, that's not going to do much for the community you have built up.

And speaking of which, I think the concept of FUDcon as "a place for the
community for meet" is going to be incredibly divisive *if* you assume
that the people there represent the community.

I think it's going to be very North America-centric. I just don't have
time or money to get over to Boston on the amount of notice that we were
given. Fedora users are not necessarily commercial users.

Get opinions there, sure. Come up with ideas, float concepts, have
arguments. But if decisions are made "having consulted the community",
you're kidding yourselves.

Maybe we need separate fedora-user and fedora-directions fora.

Maybe it's time for me to re-examine where and how I want to help.

James.
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