[Kstars-devel] KStars community message boards

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

I have created web forums for KStars that I am hosting myself.  The 
address is:

http://kstars.30doradus.org/

Please check it out, and sign up if you like.  The boards won't thrive 
without content, so post if you think of something.

I'd like feedback on some things:

1) Does that address work for you?  When I try using Firefox(Mac), I get 
   directed to the wrong page (http://marvin.as.arizona.edu/index.html); 
if this happens to you *please* let me know by replying to this message. 
  You can get to the forums by appending "index.php" to the above URL.
(I've actually also gotten to the right page by reloading, which is 
really weird)

I've tried in Safari, IE(Mac) and Konqueror(Mac) and these browsers all 
find the correct location.

2) Let me know if you are interested in helping out by becoming a forum 
moderator.

3) Forum Topics...too many?  any others?

4) How to announce the forums?  Once we on the list use it for a while 
and work out any kinks, I'll post a news item on our webpage.  Is it 
worth a kstars-announce mailing list post?  dot article?

thanks,
Jason

Jason Harris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One of our users (José Luis) emailed me today, suggesting that we set up 
> a message board or mailing list for the KStars user community.  I think 
> this is a great idea; in fact, we've had a kstars-user at sourceforge.net 
> mailing list for years, but it's never been active, maybe because we 
> didn't advertise its existence very much.
> 
> Anyway, I think a web-based message board might be a better forum for 
> our user community.  I have asked the kde-forum.org people whether they 
> would be willing to host a forum for us, and they have just replied that 
> they would be glad to do it!
> 
> So, it looks like we are going to have community message boards soon.  I 
> am posting here to get feedback on this idea from my fellow developers 
> and any interested users who may be monitoring this list.  What do you 
> think?  Are you interested in such a resource?  Do you think it will 
> help build a more active KStars user community?
> 
> My idea is to have a few message boards targeting different topics, such 
> as:  General Discussion, Custom Content, Telescopes and Hardware, New 
> Feature Ideas.  Any other ideas for Board topics?
> 
> regards,
> Jason
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