February 13th (Friday) - MangoLassi Day!
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I've been in a bit of a transition as of late but I should be available...depending on if I have a job by that point and also what the job is...
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Sounds tops! Good luck on the hardware side.
Getting the node.bb lads (and lasses?) in is a good idea. Sounds like it'll be an epic stress test... In more ways than one
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Sounds tops! Good luck on the hardware side.
Getting the node.bb lads (and lasses?) in is a good idea. Sounds like it'll be an epic stress test... In more ways than one
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Should be a lot of fun too, so much activity that we can't keep up at all. That would be awesome. We get tons and tons of views now, but getting a lot of posting activity would be amazing.
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Great idea! I will do my best to be there.
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Whoah sounds a big day for ML.
Morning of the 13th, like 8:00 am? ( 8:00 PM here) -
@Joyfano said:
Whoah sounds a big day for ML.
Morning of the 13th, like 8:00 am? ( 8:00 PM here)Yes, exactly. Starting in the early morning and going all day.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Joyfano said:
Whoah sounds a big day for ML.
Morning of the 13th, like 8:00 am? ( 8:00 PM here)Yes, exactly. Starting in the early morning and going all day.
Perfect.. On 14 I will be on another Mountain trip.
I need to take picture from the summit for ML with "Happy Mangolassi day" -
Oooh I will probably be on here but... I can't hang around all night. If it starts at 8pm then I'll be on for a few hours. (same time zone as @Joyfano )
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@nadnerB said:
Oooh I will probably be on here but... I can't hang around all night. If it starts at 8pm then I'll be on for a few hours. (same time zone as @Joyfano )
Do as much"prep" as you can leaving us with lots of stuff to comment on when we wake up.
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And find some more Aussies to participate too!
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Can we get email notifications...hmmmm...?
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@Rob-Dunn said:
Can we get email notifications...hmmmm...?
Of the posts as they happen? No, sadly the platform doesn't support that. We have been asking the NodeBB developers to get that for us in some configurable way. We are hoping that one or two or even three of the NodeBB guys will be here on the 13th participating so maybe that would be a time to talk to them here, rather than tracking them down on their own forum.
I was speaking with them just this morning about the management of a high volume community as we are, we are pretty sure, in the top two largest and busiest communities on their platform.
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Getting Microsoft and MSP's to come visit once is pretty cool, but there's almost no content here for those people. There's ZERO Enterprise level content from a Microsoft basis. Frankly I get a bit of a anti-Microsoft vibe here. How do you plan on getting these people to do more then a single visit, look at a few posts and never come back?
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@Martin9700 said:
Getting Microsoft and MSP's to come visit once is pretty cool, but there's almost no content here for those people. There's ZERO Enterprise level content from a Microsoft basis. Frankly I get a bit of a anti-Microsoft vibe here. How do you plan on getting these people to do more then a single visit, look at a few posts and never come back?
Hopefully getting them here will help to create some content. That's what we struggle with most - getting people to ask questions. There are lots of people here to answer questions, but almost no one asking any. The lack of Microsoft content is from the lack of Microsoft questions.
However the group coming are not Microsoft enterprise people, mostly, they are MSPs. So it is the MSP aspects that will be the biggest commonality, I suspect, which is on average far less enterprise and more SMB and SME.
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If you have any ideas of how to get more content here, especially Microsoft content, that would be lovely.
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Chicken and egg, I think. Can't get traffic without content and can't get content without traffic. Why would anyone post here? If you're looking for a place to ask your question you want a place that looks active and inviting with active SME's. Most forum's get a leg up because they leverage a product, Spiceworks, early PowerShell, etc. something ML lacks.
It's going to be a really tough road.
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@Martin9700 said:
Getting Microsoft and MSP's to come visit once is pretty cool, but there's almost no content here for those people. There's ZERO Enterprise level content from a Microsoft basis. Frankly I get a bit of a anti-Microsoft vibe here. How do you plan on getting these people to do more then a single visit, look at a few posts and never come back?
I wonder (honestly wonder) how much people come and read existing content versus only reading the current content (top 20 topics or whatever.) Searching turns up old ones, but I think that people visiting the site will mostly look at current discussions.
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We ARE hoping to get some vendors involved. Two of which, StorageCraft and AetherStore, are Windows only so having them participating would help a lot just because every discussion with them will be Windows centric.
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@Martin9700 said:
Chicken and egg, I think. Can't get traffic without content and can't get content without traffic. Why would anyone post here? If you're looking for a place to ask your question you want a place that looks active and inviting with active SME's. Most forum's get a leg up because they leverage a product, Spiceworks, early PowerShell, etc. something ML lacks.
It's going to be a really tough road.
It is, a tough road indeed. That's a known problem. However that is also a downfall of other communities - stop using the product or don't like the product or the product goes away and the community goes away too. Being neutral makes it SO much harder to attract community members BUT makes (we think) there be a much better chance for continuous, regular growth that just lasts.
But boy is it hard. No question there.
