NYCPHP Meetup

[Nasir Zubair]

I'll second the idea of forums. They are much more effective ( however, much
younger) and easier to manage than mailing lists. I am an active member of
quite a few forums, related to web design/programming on the net. One of the
most popular ones is Site Point Forums, http://www.sitepointforums.com/
which caters to 28,784 members. And another one is www.webdesignforums.net I
also run and manage a few forums, including my own sites and my employer's
site.

There are quite a few forum packages for AMP environment. 
phpBB, www.phpbb.com , and Invision Power Boards, two of the top free ones. 
vBulletin, www.vbulletin.com, the best commercial one. I run vBulletin on my
site because of its stability and the availability of support.

I think this solution should be looked into, if not deployed on NYPHP.

- Nasir

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Goldberg [mailto:coling at macmicro.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:57 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] AMP comments


Why not consider adding a Forum section to the NYPHP site? In it you could 
set up multiple sections, with multiple topics, moderated or unmoderated. 
So instead of, or in addition to, keeping up by way of mailing lists, a 
member could visit the forum and browse through the sections/topics by 
thread, etc. according to interest.

As I see it, a forum behaves like a "market" in a way, in that popularity 
of, and replies to, postings will be determined by the interest a forum 
visitor has in the thread. If someone posts a question etc. and nobody 
replies, then that just indicates that (a) no-one knows the answer, (b) 
no-one is interested, or (c) "you name it" reason. To me, that's quite 
fair, but even so, overall the forum page gives a quick idea about the 
direction(s) that discussion(s) are going in.

I have seen a "free" product that seems (at first glance) to be well put 
together - http://www.invisionboard.com/ Perhaps it's worth looking at... 
(I have no connection with them).

Colin G




At 02:34 PM 9/25/03, you wrote:
>Perhaps we could have a web page, and ask people to read it before 
>signing up.
>
>Then members of the list could have a form letter that has a link to 
>the "etiquette" page. Replying with a form would just take a 'couple' 
>of clicks and could be a kindler and gentler RTFM.
>
>Anyway I think the members should police the list instead of creating 
>an elite list.
>
>
>T. Gales & Associates
>Helping People Connect with Technology http://www.tgaconnect.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org 
>[mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Peter Lehrer
>Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:38 PM
>To: NYPHP Talk
>Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] AMP comments
>
>Perhaps we can have a short presentation on how to ask a question on an
>"on-topic" list so the "knowledgable" people's time don't
>become wasted.
>This presentation could be based on our experience on the
>talk list as well
>as other resources such as Eric Raymond's article.
>
>Yours,
>Peter L.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "PUTAMARE" <jeffknight at mac.com>
>To: <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:34 AM
>Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] AMP comments
>
>
> > Meh, my precious scroll key finger isn't that abused by
>off topic
> > posts, there really aren't enough to warrant the diversion
>of resources
> > from some more worthy project to solve the "problem". As I
>mentioned at
> > the meeting, probably the best first phundamentals should
>be a how to
> > filter your email tutorial, since most of the list-based 
> > dissatisfaction comes from people who apparently don't.
>I'm not going
> > to volunteer for this phundamental however because I do
>not know or
> > care to know how to do anything in outlook.
> >
> > Jeff Knight
> > jeff at lushmedia.com
> > 212/213-6558 x 203
> > LUSH media
> > 110 W 40th St #1502
> > New York, NY 10018
> >
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