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I posted the following message in the private Moderators forum, just to get micro's permission before posting publicly. The title was "thoughts on improving the forum". Not that I think anything is wrong with the forum, I've just been thinking of things that could make it better.
As it turns out (and as I expected) he's not interested in changing or adding anything. But I still think my ideas have some merit, and I'm still thinking of setting up a separate site, which I hope could be linked to this forum. I wouldn't try to create a new forum, because I don't think I could do any better than this forum. But I hope he will agree to link to it.
So since it's no longer a suggestion for the forum, I'm posting in OT instead of Feedback subforum.
Hi microUgly and Friends,
For some time now, I've been thinking about ways in which the forum might be improved. It's not that I think anything is wrong. It's just that there could be so much more. I'm thinking about a portal, I guess. And I don't know if phpBB offers a portal, but that's a general way to describe what I'm thinking about.
For example, we could have a page for tutorials. While there are multitudes of tutorials available, there are only a handful of sites which provide a large collection of tutorials for Inkscape, in one place. So this would be no different from the other few that are out there. But it would be another large collection for the convenience of the community -- perhaps a place to centralize videos tutorials, which currently can only be found by searching the internet, YT, etc.
There could be a page for articles. I suspect we have several members who might like to write some articles (or maybe already have) who don't have any place to post/host them.
Most awesome of all would be a gallery or galleries! While the 3 subforums for submitting images is nice and adequate, I think a real gallery would be even nicer -- in a gallery style, rather than topic style. Maybe it would include artist profiles. And it doesn't need to be anything that would compete with dA or Flickr, but just a place for forum members to display their work.
Perhaps there could be a chatroom, where members could have impromptu private chats. Or maybe we could have something like a live tutorial chat, or other scheduled chats, like lessons on certain Inkscape techniques. Inkscape University, you know -- why not?!!
And maybe other members would have other ideas too. I'm posting this privately here, for now. But if you have no objections, I'd like to post in Feedback/Suggestions, to get other members' input. And we could only get some idea if there is any interest in this, by posting in the public area.
And I'm certainly more than willing to put in time and energy, to either help set up, organize, moderate and/or administer this project. If it's successful, we would need to bring at least one new moderator on board, because there will be more content to moderate, and I couldn't do it all alone.
Comments?
I think these things could benefit the Inkscape community, and wonder if anyone else has been thinking likewise. If anyone has any other ideas, or support or criticism for these ideas, I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks
