jyonkov
Neven Boyanov
Bertrand
Daniel Radev
Stefan Stefanov
Apostol Apostolov
ihayes2000
Jean
What we should do with our (small) community site?
I think before we start “just-another-place-to-share-everything-we-do” or “the-ultimate-place-for-doing-cool-stuff” we should try to get the maximum out of what we have right now, which is WP.com for one reason or another. I’m afraid that we will start wasting time, resources and much effort creating one place after another instead of doing things.
Does anyone have clear idea what exactly we would like to do?
Let’s answer this first.
OR
Let’s just let everyone talk here and may be something will come out of it. The Universe is a perfect place, it’s built of random (although the existence of the randomness is a controversial philosophical question) stuff and events. Let’s see what the chance will bring to us.
jyonkov are discussing. 
Daniel Radev 10:12 pm on January 12, 2010 Permalink |
Well, in general I think the whole idea of the site is to share some ideas, that we might have and eventually develop them. The thing is, I do not expect that we will generate ideas every other day, so it seems unreasonable to expect heavy site traffic.
On the other hand letting everyone talk about their ideas will eventually generate traffic/ideas/potential, but it also means some unwanted traffic, so we probably need some way to filter content if we let everyone talk…
jyonkov 11:59 pm on January 12, 2010 Permalink |
I agree that we have plenty here…It would be nice to have other languages and adds but ROI might be insignificant… Personally I’m exited about a DevCamp with at least a Green Energy theme and a space/page where people could write about what they are hoping to develop. if more than 1 team emerges we can have a competition and the winer can be decided based on the energy produced. About other developments we can always showcase stuff here…
Neven Boyanov 9:26 pm on January 13, 2010 Permalink |
It is not appropriate to filter content, everyone should be able to at least write a comment. The posts though are started by the members only. The only thing we should be doing in regards to DJR note above is to encourage one thing and discourage another. But I think we have no right to judge anyones opinion.
The biology is all in Latin, a good part of ancient philosophy in Greek and just a few other languages, so why not the hi-tec in 21-st century in English, It’s not the native language for (almost) anyone of us, but it’s a good common language. The problem is for people like Hristo Minkov (from Kozarevec) who’s English vocabulary is very limited and he cannot participate here for the same reason, but at the same time he is far ahead of anyone here in terms of practical implementation of alternative/green sources of energy.
jyonkov 6:33 am on January 14, 2010 Permalink |
I agree with everything about filtering, nicely put! About Hristo and some other potential members, they can always use google translate with google toolbar… and if willing to contribute they can do that in Bulgarian if they like…
Daniel Radev 6:57 am on January 14, 2010 Permalink |
By filtering content I meant avoiding spam/scum/phishing attacks, which are inevitable if we open the site for all. Otherwise I totally agree that we must encourage any opinion (even if we might not like it by any reason) and we have no right to judge….
As for the language let’s just say that English is the “official” as the common denominator here, but anyone is free to write in language he/she can express his ideas best…
Neven Boyanov 8:06 pm on January 26, 2010 Permalink |
I think that the best thing about our website is that it’s a good place where we can share our thoughts and expect our friends to share their opinion.