[Kstars-devel] KStars community message boards

[Jason Harris]

Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Personally I find mailing lists more convenient in that I can browse the 
> discussions at offline leisure, but forums are more powerful, especially when 
> search is available. But KDE-Forum? Are you sure the administration there 
> responded well to you? Recently qt-forum and kde-forum have been taken over 
> by a person who does not respond well to the community -- see 
> http://qtcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=2
> 
Argh, you're right.  Somehow I thought it was only qt-forum that was 
affected.  Well, after their initial reply I never heard back from them, 
so who knows what is going on over there.  I'll just assume that option 
is dead, and try to investigate other options.

>> as:  General Discussion, Custom Content, Telescopes and Hardware, New
>> Feature Ideas.  Any other ideas for Board topics?
> 
> Yep, General Discussion splits into KStars Discussion and Astronomy 
> Discussion. The latter would create a good userbase because people who come 
> here from the net to ask astronomy related questions and then discover and 
> star(t) using KStars.
> 
> What is "Custom Content"? Is that equivalent to Miscellaneous?
> 
No, Custom Content is meant for people sharing and discussing files that 
they've created for use in KStars.  Anything from Observing Lists to 
scripts to thumbnail image collections.

Jason