Hi Guys, just following up with notes from the conversation : =========== Things that are good right now: - works - emerging community. ( 1200+ people have > 9 posts ) - knowledge base - structure works well Things that are bad right now: - looks ( not too bad, just looks dated ) - people ask a question and are told - not a centos problem, we could be better at this Things that we want done over-and-above whats in place now: - persistent logins ( longer than 10 hours ) - Jump to first unread post in the forums ( remember read/unread status of posts ) - Edit and change their own email address - moderators need an effective means to handle spam + at the moment only a/c deletions are possible + nice to have: block on ip level - admin access to the central user accounting system + atleast be able to do flags / moderator settings / bans Recommendations: - phpbb - Draw up a list of recommendations / guideline for the moderators - let the languages be independant in their own space ( eg. forums.centos.org/<lang> ) Exactly what and who is a moderator: * does not need to be overly technical * should be someone who: - facilitate discussion - admin / background stuff - handling user profile and email change issues - maintain the FAQ's and contribute to other areas like bugs. and wiki. - Some sanity checking on the content and help being given out - promote the idea/ ethos of handing on knowledge We need a Recruitment policy: - Step 1) Setup a document that lays out what would be 'criteria' - Step 2) Existing forum admins are able to nominate people - Step 3) People get accepted into the list-of-moderators - Step 4) Clear guidelines on how and when people leave ===================== -- Karanbir Singh London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc