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Posted by python_myfav (python_myfav), 30 March 2005
why is this open talk forum not used by many people.
as i see that  to start a new topic it takes more than a week...
why is this soo....
can the administrator see trough this and see that many use this open talk forum as its is very useful for many.
are there any measures to make this site famous so that many know about it would be better if there a seperate group  for linux as the kernal is becoming very famous now a days.


looking forward for a good response


krishna

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 30 March 2005
on 03/30/05 at 16:55:11, python_myfav wrote:
looking forward for a good response

krishna


Krishna,  I hope you consider that this is a good response ...

I'm a trainer, specialising in Open Source languages such as Perl, PHP, Python and Tcl/Tk.  Our customers learn a lot on our courses but occasionally a question comes up after the course; I set up this forum so that they could easily ask such questions - they get an answer from what I hope is a "friendly face" and I slowly build up a database of good questions that's accessible to many many more people who find it via web searches.

Why isn't it busier here?

* Because our training is so good that people don't have many questions.
* Because there are a lot of excellent sources of information (books, manual pages, etc, and other locations on our websites) that mean that they can get many answers without having to ask
* Because our customers are a lovely bunch of people who know just how busy we are and use the free service I provide sparingly.

But really ... it's MUCH busier than you think.   You only see the views to the "live" forum, and you only see the new questions posted and not the older ones being referred to on the .html archive. Some of the pages here are referenced dozens of times every day on that archive mirror - I've just had a look at our web logs and subjects like Guestbooks, String Tokenizers and Foreigh keys have monthly hits in thousands!

I'm not wanting to make Opentalk much busier at the moment - it's my hobby too, but there simply aren't enough hours in the day. And so, regrettably, I have to decline any suggestions for separate boards that are too far away from the programming language field in which I specilise.



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