[theforum] Reviving evolt [was: Vote Request]
Max Schwanekamp
lists at neptunewebworks.com
Thu Sep 7 19:23:03 CDT 2006
> From: William Anderson
> The discussions never happened. If you want to faff with
> mailing lists, please, be my guest, but I'm concerned that
> we're focusing in the wrong direction.
>
> Has anyone considered canvassing for opinions on thelist or
> on the site itself?
Personally I'd say you both have valid POV's. I agree with Alan simplifying
the lists is a good idea, for the reasons he gave. But William is spot on
as well; "faffing" with the lists alone is not going to address the overall
issue of reviving evolt.
For my part, I'd suggest we cultivate closer and more obvious ties to
related groups/publications, such as A List Apart (thought ALA is itself a
bit moribund lately) and more directly css-discuss. E.g. thelist sees a
goodly number of posts that get a link to the css-discuss wiki as a reply.
CSS-D has a huge volume list and a wiki. No site, no articles. Evolt has a
medium-volume list (thelist) and a site.
Also, why doesn't evolt have a blog feature? A multiuser blog might work
well toward getting some involvement. A lot of us devs either don't want to
spend the time setting up a blog, or have a blog and often preface their
posts with "sorry it's been so long since I last posted." Not sure what it
would entail to do this in Drupal...
PS - what is beo? browsers.evolt.org? If so, how does that generate
revenue?
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Max Schwanekamp
NeptuneWebworks.com
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