Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Facebook

[Mostafa Alizadeh]

Hi dear Marcus, 

I didn't really want to move attention from here to other places! The GNURadio website didn't constructed "informative". I mean any updates to the website do not appear for GNURadio followers. At least one of the Facebook advantages is its real-time interactions and communications. I'm not gonna compare this page with this mailing list, however, Facebook let more people engages in GNURadio. 

best, 

Mostafa

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Marcus Müller <address@hidden> wrote:

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Hi,

as a single, small, sometimes lost, developer, I ask you:
please don't open side channels on your own.

A lot of us have been around this mailing list for a very long time, and we try to keep information as concentrated as possible.  Already now we see a lot of people following tutorials from more-or-less dubious, most of the time totally outdated websites.

We should really try to keep gnuradio.org the official page for all information on GNU Radio.
I don't see why anyone of the official core team should try to update a facebook page with release info etc, if there is no question that this information can and should be found in gnuradio.org; I think you might have gone a little to far promising constant updates.

Also, there's a lively community around GNU Radio, and things like conference announcements never go unnoticed on the discuss-gnuradio mailing list, so I really don't see the demand for a more "communicative" platform. In fact, the mailing list, the #gnuradio on freenode, the github page, the gnuradio.org wiki and of course the regular hangouts as much as conferences and hackfests are so much communication that it actually amounts to a fair amount of work to keep up with all the information exchanged.

All in all, facebook is really a terrible platform for discussion if you want to make information well-searchable, well documented, self-organized; the average time until a post on the mailing list goes answered is in the order of hours; as a lot of the community earns its money with software radio related occupations, I doubt the frequency of qualified answers on facebook would ever be as high as on the mailing list.

Greetings,
Marcus

On 20.05.2014 07:05, Mostafa Alizadeh wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> To be more communicative, we'v designed a page of "GNURadio" on facebook
>
> https://www.facebook.com/gnuradiodeveloper
>
> This page specially is for GNURadio developers who are following GNURadio
> ecosystem:
> ? new releases of GNURadio,
> ? new products of GNURadio,
> ? GNURadio conferences and events,
> ? new GNURadio-related projects
> and anything else related to GNURadio.
>
> We're looking for administrators for helping us on this page. Every
> volunteer Mail me.
>
> best,
> Mostafa
>
>
>

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