Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

marksouth2000 · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 620

Dear fellow Pups and Hounds,

With more than one forum acting flaky during the past few days, I'd like to suggest that we should set up a Puppy Forum in the Distro section at LinuxQuestions.org, where there are already thriving forums for several other distros, from the mainstream (Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora etc) to the niche (AmigoLinux, Yoper, for example). This would mean that we all have a primary refuge for those times when the Murga and Developer forums are out of action for whatever reason.

Aside from that advantage, it also means that some people would stumble upon Puppy by accident (LinuxQuestions.org is a very high traffic site, linked from a lot of other high traffic sites - notably DistroWatch.com), amounting to free publicity, and their forums are rigorously patrolled by a fulltime team of admins who kill spam and keep things running.

I have asked (without prejudice) the folks at LinuxQuestions.org what we would need to do to have a forum on their site. There are only 2 requirements: first, that the forum is linked to from the main Puppy site, and second that there be a commitment from a small team to share an admin account so that there is a regular presence on the forum from some knowledgeable Puppyists.

In practice, many of the distro forums on LQ.org are places where people get redirected to the distro's own forum. This is pretty much what the Vector guys do, for example.

What does everyone else think? Can it hurt to have people directed to this Puppy forum from outside, and to have a backup system against future problems?

Cheers,
Mark Cool

BarryK · Posted: Wed 21 Jun 2006, 08:34 Post subject:

Thanks for checking that out! yes, a positive response from me.
I don't want to continue my Developer Forum any longer anyway
-- I will attempt to extract the posts already in it.

I agree that too much diversity is a problem, but we also find putting all
the eggs in one basket is a disaster.
So, I'll keep my Developer News page going, and it now looks like it will
become a blog, which does provide limited feedback.
John's forum can stay as the main forum, especially considering the effort
John is putting into improving it -- though John will have to express his
opinion here.
And the linuxquestions.org forum can be the second/backup forum.
I will certainly put in time to answer questions on it.

marksouth2000 · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 620

stlchuck · Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 97

That is if is something that a relative newbie like me can answer. If not I can certainly point to the main forum/wiki. I agree that the additional forum will be a definite plus - let us know the specifics when you have them.

Nathan F · Posted: Wed 21 Jun 2006, 10:58 Post subject:

Sounds good, guys. I'm more than willing to check an additional forum and answer a few questions here and there, and this will make for a really good backup solution.

Barry, have you tried looking at the database in phpmyadmin? If it appears to be intact, a downloaded backup could be used to extract the posts. Hopefully your provider gives you the option, although so far they sound less than helpful.

Nathan

Ian · Posted: Wed 21 Jun 2006, 23:47 Post subject:

I think this is a good idea also.

JohnMurga · Posted: Thu 22 Jun 2006, 02:36 Post subject:

marksouth2000 · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 620

Given the positive responses to the suggestion, together with the lack of negative views, I have asked Jeremy at LinuxQuestions.org what we need to do next. He says:

MU · Posted: Thu 22 Jun 2006, 05:17 Post subject:

MarkUlrich
Co-developer?
Supporter?
Puppy-user?

Mark

BarryK · Posted: Thu 22 Jun 2006, 10:33 Post subject:

Okay, I've registered at linuxquestions.org with username "BarryK".

marksouth2000 · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 620

Girls/Guys/Puppies:

I see that I didn't make this clear enough in my previous post. Sorry for that. Each of us needs to register at http://www.LinuxQuestions.org and then I need to give them the registered usernames of those of us who want to have a helpful title. So Mark, raffy, Barry, Nathan, chuck and others, please take a moment to register there and let me know what your registered names are, OK?

Four or five of us should be plenty to get things started there - some of the smaller forums only have one titled user (like AmigoLinux, for example).

Cheers,
Mark

marksouth2000 · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 620

JaDy · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 156 Location: SE PA USA

I'm JaDy here and JGD at LinuxQuestions.

Lobster · Posted: Thu 22 Jun 2006, 11:25 Post subject:

I registered as LobsterEd (same as on IRC)
Some dubious pseudo-cructacean is using my moniker . . .

Cool

MU · Posted: Thu 22 Jun 2006, 12:06 Post subject:

I'm MarkUlrich at LinuxQuestions Smile