"Of course neither Google Groups nor a free forum appear very 
"professional", but we should not forget that we do not need to appeal to 
the casual consumer. Void is clearly a distribution for the advanced user, 
who is comfortable with getting his hands dirty on the shell and wants to 
tinker with all aspects of his OS. These people, in my experience, prefer 
function over form and do not care one way or another about appearances."

What about function and form? This is something I see in Discourse which is 
why I am pushing it so hard and I think things are only going to get 
better. If we can get something installed sooner rather than later, that 
will allow us to get posts organized before it gets out of hand. 

On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 7:09:17 PM UTC-6, Logen Kain wrote:
>
> This is intended to be a continuation of
>  https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LogenKain/posts/LxkBfWqscxy 
> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LogenKain/posts/LxkBfWqscxy>
>
> So what can we do to make life easier for contributors and users?
>
> Should we have a mailing list?  Just use Google communities? (does anyone 
> actually use communities?)
> Set up a discourse forum?  It's fairly easy to do on a Digital Ocean 
> server for $10 a month.  Might need to upgrade at some point but $10 
> wouldn't be too bad to start with.
> Is google groups good enough?  Or does it make Void look bad?  Personally 
> I think Void should have a forum that promotes Voidlinux more than Google.
>
> Things I know of that we can do to help void:
> Raise awareness - more people = more potential contributors 
> Contribute package builds
> Contribute code to the package manager
> Documentation, I still use the Arch WIki whenever I have a Linux related 
> question.
> If we could convince some North American Universities to host a void repo 
> that would be wonderful.
>
> Anyway, discuss.
>