[D-community-discuss] current status / plan update

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:28:56 +0000
Chris Lale <chrislale at untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:

> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >   
> >>  * help aimed at newbies - perhaps a list or a forum
> >>     
> >
> > Hhhm, I think this is covered pretty well by the debian-user mailing
> > list and forum.debian.net. We shouldn't spread the community.
> >   
> 
> Except that there is _no_ list aimed at beginners/newbies. There have 
> been discussions on the Debian-user list that suggest that a newbie
> list will not happen on the "official" Debian list servers. D-u is 
> potentially intimidating for newbies. I do not think that it would be 
> spreading the community to create a list for newbies. It would be 
> extending the community.

A newbie list is unlikely to be very helpful. Who will be its
subscribers?

Regards,
Andrei
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