[D-community-discuss] current status / plan update

[Chris Lale]

Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Chris Lale <chrislale at untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Have you looked at the http://forums.debian.net ? It has >9000 users
>> already.
>> > On the d-c.org site there are also links to a german (>18000 users) 
>> and a
>> > portuguese (>1000 users) forums.
>> >
>> > I'd prefer to point users to those forums, rather then to setup our 
>> own.
>> If
>> > they dont have a newbie-forum, then I suggest to add one there :)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I can't find anything newbie-like there!
>
> You *seriously* can't find anything newbie-like on f.d.n? If you
> actually look *in* the forums you'd see that there are questions from
> people who are first-time Linux users as well as experienced Debian
> users. It could do with a better labelling though.
>

That is exactly what I mean. There is not a forum equivalent to Ubuntu's 
"Absolute beginner talk" _specifically_ for newbies.

-- 
Chris.