Great Matt,
In the spirit of brainstorming (and possibly not worth considering for the Cobalt project) .... Their may be an interest in a Cobalt social Ning network (both for the early adopters as well as prospective developers). These little networks are pretty flexible and really give a sense of community to a project.... just as an example take a peak at the Classroom 2.0 network here
http://www.classroom20.com
I am looking forward to contributing to the Cobalt project and introducing it to our students throughout Kansas.
Cheers,
Rich
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Matthew Schmidt <
matthew.schmidt@...> wrote:
Another cross post, but I think this question applies to users and devs alike.
I spoke with Julian Lombardi and Mark McCahill yesterday about this briefly, but I'd like to solicit a community opinion.
How do we build a coherent community around Cobalt?
My first suggestion was to have an open Wiki--not closed like Croquet's wiki.
My next suggestion was to have discussion forums where end users can ask and get answers to questions. That format lends itself well to community support. Instead of answering the same question 50 times, school the newbs for a post or two and they quickly learn to fend for themselves. Ubuntu forums is a shining example of a successful forum community.
Other ideas?
-Matt
