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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Starting a phpBB forum homebrewpcbs - msg from listowner

From: Codesuidae <codesuidae@...>
Date: 2006-06-09

Dave Hylands wrote:
> What I like is to have an email forum for the discussion portion, and
> a wiki for the information that you want to keep.
>

A wiki requires someone to copy information from the discussion to the
wiki and to keep that information updated. This task generally falls to
a small group of dedicated volunteers. This is fine if such a group is
available and persistent, but in my experience systems that rely on
volunteers to routinely copy and maintain information are more prone to
abandonment.

There are a number of very dedicated people in this community, so a list
and wiki may be a good solution here.

A wiki for organizing information in a topic-oriented format is a
valuable supplement to both mailing lists and forums, where information
about a particular topic is spread among many otherwise unrelated threads.

Dave K