Community (was wierd scenes inside the gold mine)

["C. Oda" <craig@example.com>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> coordinate dozens of TLUG-like lists so that FAQs from TLUG could
> propagate to KLUG and NYLUG and so on.  Then you don't go around
> reinventing the wheel so much, but you still get the "small town
> helping hand" mentality.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Seems to me that if it was a user-level solution (like a Web browser),
> this would be the next "killer app."  (NB: obviously, the coordination
> would have to take place in a decentralized Web-like fashion, not
> somewhat centralized like Usenet.  Otherwise, you'll just end up with
> a better Usenet: a good thing, of course, but not killer.)

If the conversation the was situated on a web-based BBS instead
of news, there could be conferences for each physically located
club and topics for each discussion thread within each conference.
Each conference and each individual topic could be hyperlinked to
every other note so that discussions could move from TLUG to NYLUG
and back again.  

I think there also needs to be a discussion group of club officers
from each club where there would be a centralized FAQ repository
with a flat file search engine or some other type of easy to
implement search method. 

The problem is getting people to move from e-mail to a BBS style
discussion forum.

-- Craig


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