[chbot] Does ChCh Robotics need more www presence?

[Carl Ranson]

Rex Teague wrote:

>Is there any potential in the site Andrew setup?
>http://www.instructables.com/group/chbot/
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Instructables is a great for what it does, but ONLY that.

As a software developer my first instinct is to look at the use cases to 
try to work out what we need, which is what i was trying to discuss with 
my previous post.

What would people want for a projects page?  would it look like a blog 
type thing, or just a static page?
I could imagine wanting to have a "hey guys heres the bit ive been 
working on lately" which leans me towards a blog, but that could also be 
done within a threaded message group that allows pictures and a static 
page to show the "current" state of development.
C

>Email lists maybe old fashioned but I much prefer them to the more 
>modern web based forums. I'm on several Google Groups, they have 
>storage options as well as allowing attachments to be posted.
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>Yahoo Groups do well too but they have their management hiccoughs. 
>Google is my preference, it can be setup with introductory material and 
>has a good search facility!
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>My thoughts... Rex
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>On Saturday 07 July 2007 00:31, Carl Ranson wrote:
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>>Personally I'd love to see something like this happen.
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>>Mailing lists are pretty old fashioned and not being able to post
>>images is a bit of a pain.
>>It would be nice to have a page each to showcase our projects (yes,
>>theres nothing to stop each of us from doing it ourselves)
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>>phpBB seems to be the de facto standard for discussion groups and
>>there are even free hosting sites for it.
>>example: http://nissanbluebird.8.forumer.com/index.php
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>>Google groups is totally free but I'm not convinced you could move
>>off it if we go on there. Its probably trivial to get started though
>>and does allow files to be posted.
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>>The biggest concern I'd have is that we should be able to moved to a
>>different host or domain if the need arises.
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>>As for features, I'm less sure
>>Threaded discussion board? essential
>>File area? probably useful
>>Project showcase area? useful
>>Static page for group info? almost certainly
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>>Anything else?
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