[Wylug-discuss] Suggestion for website

[John Leach]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:12 +0100, Dave Fisher wrote:
> As indicated in a previous post, I think we should consider and debate
> the implications of this kind of blogging *before* we implement it.
> 
> I for one am completely opposed to 'anything goes' on content.
> 
> Any viable community or discussion needs to set topic boundaries and
> behavioural norms.
> 
> Without them, you simply get a cacophony of disparate voices and
> opinions, i.e. people talking past each other instead of to each other.

welcome to the Internet :)

> Aside from the fact that the end result pleases no one, it could also
> seriously damage WYLUG as an organisation.  
> 
> For example, how are we going to persuade schools to let us help them
> take-up FLOSS, when all they see on our website is endless threaded
> discussion of fruit fetishism?
> 

I see a LUG has having different aims, one of which may be to help local
schools or whatever, but another is to bring people together - to foster
a community.  We of course need to figure out how to work towards our
goals without them trampling on each other, but I think to try achieve
them all in everything we do won't work out so well.

Hopefully my previous post explaining the planet system will make this
seem like a better idea.  It's really not meant to be a way to hold
discussions, just keep in touch.  It's just meant to be a tiny part of
the WYLUG 'ecosystem'.

John.
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