Use of these forums

Use of these forums

bescoto 30 Jan 2014 21:30

Hi all,

In keeping with the open source spirit, this year I'd like us all to use the forum, instead of the email list. This will open up participation to people who may not be on the Open Source Committee mailing list (or who may not be associated with the CAS at all). Offhand I can't think of much forum business that couldn't be done in the open on this forum, but use your best judgment of course.

This forum supports RSS, so you can get automatic notifications through Outlook, Gmail, or another RSS reader. All committee members should be subscribed to this "Committee Business" forum. The RSS link is:

http://opensourcesoftware.casact.org/feed/forum/cp-115920.xml

You'll probably also want to subscribe to the "Open Source" forum at:

http://opensourcesoftware.casact.org/feed/forum/cp-115921.xml

Here are instructions for using Outlook 2007 as an RSS reader. If you're like me you only check your inbox, so you may want to move the detail folder to your Inbox. Here is a recent article on Gmail (I don't use Gmail, so I haven't tried this one myself).

Please post below if you have any comments/concerns/suggestions about the forums.

Thanks,
Ben Escoto

Re: Use of these forums

Avraham 12 Mar 2014 15:49

I applaud the spirit, but how will this jibe with the CAS community set up for us, which has a forum as well?

Re: Use of these forums

Hai You 13 Mar 2014 13:49

AVR, CAS won't help on this issue. Do you mean you like the forum? Thanks a million.

Re: Use of these forums

bescoto 13 Mar 2014 15:15

I talked to some CAS people about the community and decided to keep using these forums. The main problem I had with the community is that there is no way to view any messages posted in the community without logging in. We've already had a non-actuary post on this forum who became interested through reading some of the work going on—-that couldn't have happened if we closed off these forums. Furthermore, if we used the CAS community, google and other search engines wouldn't have been able to find our messages, making the forums harder to use even for CAS actuaries.

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dmurphy 01 Feb 2014 14:33

Re: Use of these forums

Avraham 13 Mar 2014 07:49

Is there any way to highlight text which is a link without requiring a mouse-over?

Re: Use of these forums

bescoto 13 Mar 2014 15:11

I believe the way links are not underlined is a bug with CSS in the CAS theme that this site uses. When that is fixed all the links posted will be underlined.

also see http://opensourcesoftware.casact.org/forum/t-786372/wiki-and-forum-improvements