forum

Examples of forum in the following topics:

• Introduction to Mailing Lists / Message Forums

  • Discussion forums in which participants post and respond to messages are the bread and butter of project communications.
  • Because of this nearly-completed unification between email lists and web-based forums, I will use the terms message forum and mailing list more or less interchangeably.
  • They refer to any kind of message-based forum where posts are linked together in threads (topics), people can subscribe, archives of past messages can be browsed, and the forum can be interacted with via email or via a web browser.
  • If a user is exposed to any channel besides a project's web pages, it is most likely to be one of the project's message forums.
  • But before she experiences the forum itself, she will experience the process of finding the right forums.

• Communications Channels

  • Provide the addresses of mailing lists, chat rooms, IRC channels (in Technical Infrastructure), and any other forums where others involved with the software can be reached.
  • In the long run, probably only a fraction users will use the forums anyway, but the others will be comforted to know that they could if they ever needed to.
  • In the early stages of a project, there's no need to have separate user and developer forums.
  • As this chapter is only about getting a project started, it's enough merely to say that these communications forums need to exist.
  • Later, in the section called "Handling Growth" in Communications, we'll examine where and how to set up such forums, the ways in which they might need moderation or other management, and how to separate user forums from developer forums, when the time comes, without creating an unbridgeable gulf.

• Architecture under the Nervan-Antonines

  • Trajan's Forum was the last of the imperial fora to be built in the city.
  • The forum's main entrance was accessed from the south, near to the Forum of Augustus as well as the Forum of Caesar (which Trajan also renovated).
  • The Forum of Augustus might have been the model for the Forum of Trajan, even though the latter was much larger.
  • Trajan built his forum with the spoils from his conquest of Dacia.
  • The markets follow the shape of the Trajan's forum.

• Group Presentation Formats

  • Public forum debate can be compared to a nationally-televised debate, such as 'Crossfire' in which the debaters argue a topic.
  • The debate in a public forum is conducted by teams of two people alternating speeches for their side, either affirming or negating their topic.
  • Successful public forum debaters must make persuasive and logical arguments in a manner that is accessible to a wide variety of audiences.
  • Public forum debate also focuses on not only logical, but research based arguments.

• Introduction to Handling Growth

  • There will be no explosion when forums reach the breaking point.
  • As more and more people make this highly rational choice, the forum's activity will seem to stay at a manageable level.
  • It's just that the benefit/cost ratio of using those high-population forums goes down, so naturally those with the experience to do so start to look elsewhere for answers first.
  • Recognizing when particular parts of a forum are not suffering unbounded growth, even if the forum as a whole is, and separating those parts off into new, more specialized forums (i.e., don't let the good be dragged down by the bad).
  • Most projects start out with one main forum: a general discussion mailing list, on which feature ideas, design questions, and coding problems can all be hashed out.

• Announcing

  • There are two kinds of forums for making announcements: generic forums that display a constant stream of new project announcements, and topic-specific forums where your project would be appropriate news.
  • (Some projects also successfully climb the word-of-mouth / upvote tree to the point where they are featured on the front page of news.ycombinator.com, one of the subreddit forums related to reddit.com/r/technology, or some similarly popular public page.
  • The topic-specific forums are probably where you'll get the most interest.
  • Think about mailing lists or web forums where an announcement of your project would be on-topic and of interest — you might already be a member of some of them — and post there.
  • Be careful to make exactly one post per forum, and to direct people to your project's own discussion areas for follow-up discussion (when posting by email, you can do this by setting the Reply-to header).

• What a Project Needs

  • Usually the most active communications forum in the project, and the "medium of record. "

• Ostia

  • The city is typical of a Roman city, including a large central forum, bath houses , temples, a theatre, barracks for firemen, and apartment buildings.
  • The two central streets of the city, the cardo and decumanius ran north-south and east-west through the city, intersecting at the forum–the center of the city's civic and religious activities.
  • Common features throughout the Empire include the Capitolium, the temple dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, in the forum at the center of the city .
  • Across from the Capitolium in the forum stands a temple dedicated to Augustus and Roma.

• The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

  • APEC is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
  • The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries (formally Member Economies) that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

• The Romans After Constantine

  • Parts of ancient Rome, especially the Republican Forum, returned once again to the cow pastures that they originally were at the time of the city's founding, as floods from the Tiber washed them over in debris and sediment .
  • A view of the Roman Forum by Italian engraver, Giambattista Piranesi.
  • This shows what the forum looked like-- an empty cow filed-- during his own time in the mid 18th century CE.