I agree that the many sources / water coolers is a problem for us.
Getting c.d.i. into the forums is my next “project”. In as much that I
will be poking the people that can do the work rather than being able to
do it myself. On top of c.d.i we have Ingres related blogs which need to
be aggregated. Also there is twitter which also gets mentions of Ingres
(artist and database). To this end I am trying to collate/aggregate
these sources of “Ingres” information into http://planetingres.org. At
the moment it just does blogs – typically the ones I know about or come
across in google alert searches. The general chatter
(c.d.i/forums/twitter/irc) can be seen at
http://planetingres.org/chatter/. It's still a work in progress but the
first step is to aggregate the info. The next step will be to make it
use-able/navigable. Although I could see the need/use for a “blogs”
feed in to the forums.

regards

grant

On/El 23/02/09 10:44, Disqus wrote/escribió:

But just to elaborate a little on the grumbling you refer to at comp.databases.ingres: the problem is not the places and channels that people choose to congregate. You are absolutely right that Ingres should be ubiquitous and if twitter would be used then there should be an Ingres presence. The problem is that different people have different ways of working and different methods of delivery suit different people. For instance, I am rarely at my desk or even in the office, so I need a mailing list or a web-forum. Other people need instant help with a small problem. Other people prefer not to have to trawl all the possible forums and want email notification. And so on. The point is that we need more cross-posting otherwise instead of a community we end up with a myriad cliques, each unaware of the others, and conversations fizzle before they ever start.

ii_log is brilliant. Now we just need to get vBulletin to talk to info-ingres and we're about done. (Actually, if I ruled the world, I would also do a hatchet job on the number of distinct forums at ingres.com–there's waaaaaaaaaaaay too many. You need one for Ingres and one for OpenROAD.)

I agree that the many sources / water coolers is a problem for us.
Getting c.d.i. into the forums is my next “project”. In as much that I
will be poking the people that can do the work rather than being able to
do it myself. On top of c.d.i we have Ingres related blogs which need to
be aggregated. Also there is twitter which also gets mentions of Ingres
(artist and database). To this end I am trying to collate/aggregate
these sources of “Ingres” information into http://planetingres.org. At
the moment it just does blogs – typically the ones I know about or come
across in google alert searches. The general chatter
(c.d.i/forums/twitter/irc) can be seen at
http://planetingres.org/chatter/. It's still a work in progress but the
first step is to aggregate the info. The next step will be to make it
use-able/navigable. Although I could see the need/use for a “blogs”
feed in to the forums.

regards

grant

On/El 23/02/09 10:44, Disqus wrote/escribió:

But just to elaborate a little on the grumbling you refer to at comp.databases.ingres: the problem is not the places and channels that people choose to congregate. You are absolutely right that Ingres should be ubiquitous and if twitter would be used then there should be an Ingres presence. The problem is that different people have different ways of working and different methods of delivery suit different people. For instance, I am rarely at my desk or even in the office, so I need a mailing list or a web-forum. Other people need instant help with a small problem. Other people prefer not to have to trawl all the possible forums and want email notification. And so on. The point is that we need more cross-posting otherwise instead of a community we end up with a myriad cliques, each unaware of the others, and conversations fizzle before they ever start.

ii_log is brilliant. Now we just need to get vBulletin to talk to info-ingres and we're about done. (Actually, if I ruled the world, I would also do a hatchet job on the number of distinct forums at ingres.com–there's waaaaaaaaaaaay too many. You need one for Ingres and one for OpenROAD.)