How Can We Increase the Size of Our Community?

[Neo]

Any suggestions on how to increase the number of posters and contributors? Please vote and write in your suggestions.

Thank you!

[KenJackson]

Gather up 10 of the most interesting problems that have been solved here recently, especially those with novel solutions, and publish an article about them in a journal. Advocate this forum as the premier example of the UNIX/Linux community solving problems together.

[pludi]

One possibility might be to encourage word of mouth. I got here after getting a reference by a colleague, who used a snippet of code he found.

[zaxxon]

I think what Pludi says will help the most - though I currently have no idea how to implement it. The rules are okays as they are.

[malcomex999]

What I can suggest is that to make some kind of contest which can motivate members and may also invite other new members to register and well also to send out email to members while there is something new feature or informing them to participate in the contest.

And I guess advertising on other similar sites and making link with them might help too like www.linuxquestions.org.....

All in all, there are also enough genious members who are volunteer to help!!!

[matrixmadhan]

I would say
less infraction to new users,
word of mouth
allowing anonymous posters - am sure would be big discussion around this point like sanity of the message posted, advertisements etc

at any cost - I would like/love the guidelines to be as strict as before and not to bend ourselves in that

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I would like to add this point specifically.

There are lots and lots of sites that helps/deals with shell scripting, perl scripting, unix for dummies etc. But there are only few sites that explains about the internals of unix, operating systems in general and various other operating system related concepts like memory management, virtual memory, scheduling, kernel programming, kernel compilation etc ...

This would be in particular great interest to members like me and others who wanted to know "How stuff works than just knowing how to make stuff work?" Especially students would be interested to know. My personnel experience as a student is its quite difficult to go in the right track with respect to system internals unless someone is eligible and knowledgeable says/teaches you about that. Whole student community will bless us for that not just praising !

We have so many members who are champions in unix internals - internal concepts of operating system in general and they can explain it here. Then this would become the "The" place for unix internals.

My 98 cents ( not just 2 cents )

[Corona688]

Originally Posted by matrixmadhan

I would say
less infraction to new users

New users get infractions for the same reasons old users do; why should the rules be applied unevenly? It's not like being edited for code tags actually does anything to them. Even the most egregious offenders haven't had anything worse than editing of their posts done to them unless I'm highly mistaken.

word of mouth

Naturally, but that sort of thing's hard to encourage more than it already is.

allowing anonymous posters - am sure would be big discussion around this point like sanity of the message posted, advertisements etc

Considering the number of accounts here that were one-post wonders, maybe this isn't entirely wrong. But it'd have to be controlled one way or another.

Especially students would be interested to know. My personnel experience as a student is its quite difficult to go in the right track with respect to system internals unless someone is eligible and knowledgeable says/teaches you about that. Whole student community will bless us for that not just praising !

We already have a forum for schoolwork.