German ConTeXt Initiative

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

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.
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