[p2pu-dev] Question about Forum

Blazing-Biz.com tech.business at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 08:00:58 UTC 2011


Hi,

I posted a question about putting up a Forum for p2pu and school of
Web Craft, my biggest difficulty in keeping up with the information is
not having it in a linear and dated format that I can see on threads
in a web page. I guess the mailing list is a step in that direction
but a forum is still more static in that most people do threads that
way I think. I'm very interested in this open learning project but I
find it very difficult to grasp what is going on at any given time
period. It seems like herding cats with information going many places
on many topics at once and this is disorientating. I'm a web developer
and programmer so if it's that way for me, then people outside of IT
are probably going to be turned off by not being able to look at
things and simply seeing what needs to be done to do this or that.

My concern is that there seems to be a lot of history here and people
talking to each other like everyone is up to speed, but there is no
one central place to look at the organic history of what went on
before people like myself got here. If there were, then people like me
could see all that in a linear fashion spend a few hours reading it or
going through summaries of it, and having a good idea of what has
happened previously, successes, mistakes, processes, how they panned
out, and so on - which is very valuable to see the evolution of things
that way to get to know a process and over all collaborative effort.
And rather than rehashing everything every time someone shows up,
pointing people to this history and having it summarized for them to
get up to speed quickly is a good idea.

Anyway, that's my biggest issue with p2pu right now. I think other
people would feel the same way if they just stepped in. I work a lot
and I'm online a lot, so I like to take a break every now and again
and check in on what's going on and see where I can step in and help
or get involved and it always seems like I'm walking into a
conversation that lots of people have been having for a long time
without any way to find out what's going on definitively and go from
there, a starting point that is comprehensive.

I don't know if anyone has addressed this structural issue but that's
how it seems to me after a few weeks of learning about the project
then only having quick spurts of time to come in and see if I could
get up to speed to help and hitting a wall, then trying again later
and not getting much further. This mailing list helps, but I'm
thinking of a more top down organization like a forum where each topic
has it's own place and can be subdivided within it. Also having each
class have it's own forum would provide a historical archive to see
progress and build on top of it for future classes. That way new
people coming in can learn from the questions of the generations
before them not repeat them but build on them in an on going process
of communial growth, world wide. That would be awesome.

Anyway, I'm trying to get orientated here and if someone can do that
and let me know where I can get involved and start helping I would
like to. I checked out the BlueButton which was cool, I have to go
into all the user and developer documentation still but I'm a Flex
developer now moving from  3 to 4 so I recognized the interface
immediately. I also have used Red5 server some with Dolphin 7.0.4 and
the other technologies I mostly heard about except for the VoIP ones
but would like to learn more about. I was looking into doing Skype
Development about a year ago but I had to move to other things maybe
picking up on these other VoIP standards would be better. So if anyone
has anything for me to do I would like to.

I wanted to sign up for a class but most were either closed or pending
only the Drupal themes one was available but then the moderator was
still developing the sign up criteria, in this case what should people
wanting to sign up for a class do? Do classes have a set time period
that they open and close or do they come up as people are able to give
them and are thus available in an ad hoc fashion?

Rafael


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