From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.236.21.194 with SMTP id r42mr4785557yhr.20.1420679357888; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:09:17 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.182.28.40 with SMTP id y8ls309589obg.51.gmail; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:09:17 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.68.84 with SMTP id u20mr33098obt.15.1420679357672; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:09:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 17:09:17 -0800 (PST) From: Logen Kain To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Message-Id: Subject: How can we help? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_13612_1844432966.1420679357119" ------=_Part_13612_1844432966.1420679357119 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_13613_458415117.1420679357119" ------=_Part_13613_458415117.1420679357119 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is intended to be a continuation of 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. ------=_Part_13613_458415117.1420679357119 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This is intended to be a continuation of https://plus.googl= e.com/u/0/+LogenKain/posts/LxkBfWqscxy

So what can w= e 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.  Mi= ght 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 b= ad?  Personally I think Void should have a forum that promotes Voidlin= ux more than Google.

Things I know of that we can = do to help void:
Raise awareness - more people =3D more potential= contributors 
Contribute package builds
Contribut= e code to the package manager
Documentation, I still use the Arch= WIki whenever I have a Linux related question.
If we could convi= nce some North American Universities to host a void repo that would be wond= erful.

Anyway, discuss.
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