[DISCUSS] [IMPORTANT] - Possible Uses of this List

[Dhananjay Sathe]

Greetings,

This is a general post on some observations I have made on this list. We are really not using the potential of these mailing lists to the full extent intended . Mailing lists or mailers are incredibly powerful development and discussion platforms. Somehow this list is more like a pasteboard for a bunch of announcements and a a few people sharing or discussing something. 

Mailing lists are intended to serve the purpose of discussion and interaction (of course dedicated to the topic intended) . They are a great way to find solutions to common problems , discuss ideas and post opinions. Many a time we individually ping or mail a person for advice and help or even for some "point of view" discussions. Although this sometimes serves the purpose it isn't necessarily the best way . IF you were to post the same queries and ideas and discussions to the list it would be lot lot better. Given the folks subscribed to this mailer , we have some very smart and talented people around and some great alumni too . Many a time we find someone with a neater , faster and better solution. Perhaps a different and more well thought out point of view . Not just that these discussions may benefit a large number of other users and introduce them to things that they haven't stumbled on before.  Also it serves as a archived searchable reference for future use/reference on similar issues. (HUGE BENEFIT from my experience ). IITD & JNU Lug , Manipal LUG have a fairly active mailer and so do many many groups and orgs and it has worked for them , why not try it here.

Right now many of you may be on the verge of shouting SPAM! . Yes, indeed that may be an issue but it can be dealt with . Use a bunch of filtering,  archiving & labeling options and it is a very trivial issue. Most modern mailboxes have this facility . And if  we may need to ban people with senseless/unrelated/marketing/trending spam we could do that too , after-all the list is moderated.

People please get active and come out speak , discuss and ask ! Even if i learned one new tiny thing from these random mails once a year I think it's worth it IMHO.

That's my two cents.

Cheers !

Dhananjay Deepak Sathe | +91 976-487-1950
dhananj...@gmail.com,dhananj...@acm.org,f200...@bits-goa.ac.in,
Final Year Undergraduate,
BE(Hons) Electronics and Instrumentation,
BITS Pilani Goa Campus.

[Nishith Rastogi]

Let us consider doing architecture/stack review of things you are building.

It will be good to get suggestions and see how other people are solving problem of scale, latency, speed of development, deployment etc

Regards
Nishith Rastogi

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