Hello, Two Germans suggested to start a forum in addition to the existing mailing list. Even though it might be a problem to get enough active people to participate, I see no reason for not enabling the forum on the garden as opposed to using some arbitrary web page. Any thoughts, ideas and comments about selection of software for running a forum are welcome. (I was also thinking about HyperNews which is a forum with "mailing list interface".) Mojca On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 20:41, Hannes Riebl wrote:
Hi Mojca,
my name is Hannes. I've set up the german ConTeXt board on http://context.pytalhost.de/.
Yasser asked me to contact you because of our idea to start a german community platform for ConTeXt.
We both prefer a board instead of a mailing list because we think it's easier to use especially for unexperienced users. Another reason is that I'm not very experienced with mailing lists and have never set up one neither do I know HyperNews. I personally like PunBB because it's lightwight and easy to set up and administer.
In order to have a centralized ConTeXt community you proposed to run the board on contextgarden.net. I think that's a good idea. Would you provide a subdomain? Could the board be installed on the same server on which the wiki running on? At the moment it is running on a free webspace. Therefore we have ads on the site.
Waiting for your answer. =)
Regards, Hannes ... We will not get any users for ConTeXt when there is no knowledge in germany. And some good examples of documents createt with context.
Our plan is more to write a german book on ConTeXt. Not a reference manual (who are we to write it) but a step by step instruction how to write a thesis. Academia and thesises is the main task to be targeted, so want to write the according book.
We want to organize it in this forum. To get users will be easy when we can (I repeat myself here) get a link to the forum in the wikipedia article. I hope that the responsible admins will include it.
I hope you got what I meant.