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Hello Forums Community!

Kimberly Ann — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:54:53 GMT

I am excited to say "hello" to you and everyone participating in the ITRC Forums!! I have recently replaced Laurent as the Forums operations manager, and I am looking forward to working with you to make the ITRC Forums the meeting place for IT professionals.

I am very impressed by the current interactivity happening in the Forums -- it is obvious to me that there is a high-level of trust, recognition, and information exchange that many of you find both rewarding and beneficial.

A major part of my responsibility to you will be to help ensure you are provided the best experience possible from the ITRC Forums -- any feedback is always appreciated.

Thanks for your participation, words of wisdom, and vision that are making the ITRC Forums a rewarding place for those involved.

Talk with you soon,
Dan
Forums Operations Manager
Zero Points!

Re: Hello Forums Community!

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:16:28 GMT

Hello Dan!

Welcome to the community! Bashful, we're not as you'll see. We're full of opinions and usually you don't get the chance to ask before they're offered. I agree with you, that perhaps this openness is but one of the things that makes the ITRC such a unique place. Please join us often. You're one of us, now, for better or worse! ;-)

With warm regards, Jim.

...JRF...

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Michael Tully — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:48:10 GMT

Hi Dan,

First off WELCOME ABOARD!!!

The Forum is a great place to ask questions
naturally obtain the answers and a great way
to assist others and in some cases make new
collegues.

I hope you have a great time in your new role.

Again Welcome

Cheers
Michael

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:08:53 GMT

Dan,

Welcome to the wonderful world of the HP ITRC Forums. This is a wonderful resource that HP has developed and, as you have seen already, there are a lot of very active paticipants.

We probably are an opinionated group at times. I'm sure you have seen the two threads that Laurent started to report problems with the Forums. There is not any shyness about reporting problems and offering opinions. I admit that there are a couple of areas that are hot buttons with me as well, but we'll leave those until later. We wouldn't want to start off on the wrong foot here. ;)

Again, welcome to the forums. I am certain that you will do a great job here.

P.S. Have you thought about some type of Forums Forum at HP World to discuss the direction of the forums and some of the opinions and suggestions we may have?

Re: Hello Forums Community!

John Poff — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:27:47 GMT

Hello Dan,

Welcome from an ITRC newbie. I've been on the forum for barely a month but I've learned a lot. It is fun and satisfying to be able to give something back to the HP community. There are a lot of great people hanging out here with a rich wealth of knowledge and experience. You have a fine opportunity here to make a good thing even better. As the others have mentioned, this group isn't shy about expressing their opinions but I am impressed at how civil everyone is here.

Welcome aboard and just remember, when the bullets start flying we'll be right behind you! :)

JP

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Alexander M. Ermes — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:03:08 GMT

Hi Dan.
Welcome to the Cuckoo's nest.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Herve BRANGIER — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:09:42 GMT

Hello Dan,

Welcome on this forum and have good time
in your new activity...

Regards,

Herv?

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Alex Glennie — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:23:26 GMT

Dan

Welcome Aboard too ! I've been working in the UKRC for over 4 years now and honestly believe the principles and openness that we see on this site make it what it is ...... hope you enjoy your stay.

best wishes.

Alex

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:23:47 GMT

Hi Dan,

Welcome to the forum.

Paula

Re: Hello Forums Community!

eran maor — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:34:36 GMT

Hi Dan

first of all , welcome to the forum .

about a feedback

it will be recommend to have an option to each user to see all the message that you create

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:12:46 GMT

Hi Dan,

Welcome to the forums, I'm sure you'll have lots to keep you busy..

Hey, if we want to email you it's just Dan@hp.com right?

Bill

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Ravi_8 — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:54:01 GMT

Welcome Dan.

Forum is a place where you can see whole world of HP-UX, a best place to enjoy and fun.

wish you goodluck in this forum community.

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Alex Glennie — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:03:54 GMT

Hey Bill not so sure on that ....
see=>http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x73a2e7e60861d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Dan Gazzaniga .... but give him a week to settle in first ;) or maybe use the contact HP link for now ?

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Rita C Workman — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:19:42 GMT

Dan,

Just another Welcome to the Forums. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as the rest of us do.

Hope to meet you in Chicago !

Rita

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:26:02 GMT

Hi Dan,

welcome to the hot seat.

Unfortunately, as good as the ITRC idea is, its still not the best place to get a multitude of definitive answers from real HP experts. That mantle still belongs to dutchworks, or the HPADM mailing list.

The reasons why I think are twofold;

1. The ITRC is so slow. If youre trying to find something in a hurry its much faster to search dutchworks.nl or ask a question on their HPADM mailing list, get many more replies much faster.

2. I think the more experienced HP people out there are likely to be a bit older and thus perfer to use an old-fashioned mailing list rather than a new web based system which is much slower and more time consuming.

I think your goal should be to make the IRTC the best place for HP info. To do that you need to attract more of the experienced people from ducthworks to the ITRC and speed up the ITRC!
Maybe you should target them directly ? ask them why they perfer to answer questions on a mailing list rather than the ITRC, or maybe just get HP to close down dutckworks! (not without moving all their archives to the ITRC though first).

Cheers,

Stefan
HP OSD
HP UK

Re: Hello Forums Community!

John Bolene — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:12:37 GMT

Welcome Dan

I know that you are already hard at work to make these forums faster and more reliable.

I look forward to that day.

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Jim Turner — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:52:55 GMT

Welcome Dan!

You will find it easy to get feedback from forum users. Just start a thread entitled "Forum feedback requested" and ask for people to reply with problems and suggestions. Users will be on that like a hobo on a ham sandwich.

BTW, I'm the whiney b@$%@#d that keeps bugging Mike Oravec about forum and general ITRC problems ;-)

And to Mike's credit, "Dan Dan The Forums Man" has a nice ring to it.

Cheers,
Jim

Re: Hello Forums Community!

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:29:14 GMT

Welcome DAN

As always best of lucks

Manoj Srivastava

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Sachin Patel — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:34:24 GMT

Welcome Den
I am actively involve in this forum from month. I love it. I am newbie. But I can solve my hard and challenging problem by getting ideas from here.

Have a fun at new position.

Re: Hello Forums Community!

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:01:09 GMT

I don't agree with you fully Stephan..
I don't think very many on the sysadmin mailing list know the hp xterms, nike disk arrays or superdome more than me... honestly.. and with a backup of HP RC engineers posting regularly to the forums (in the top 10 too) I'm sure that the answers to most questions can be found here, just as well as on the sysadmin mailing list.

Other than that, because I'm a travelling trainer, I'd much rather web based forums than having to delete a thousand server doesn't boot and spam emails a day.

I think just for it's sheer simplicity accessability and depth of knowledge that it does the job perfectly. Speed to me isn't much an issue, more of an issue to the forums is the random outages 404s hangs etc.. speed seems fine most of the time.

Now don't get me wrong, I often use the hp-ux mailing list, comp.sys groups etc.. and find they all have their +'s and -'s but by far think the forums as the first stop shop.

Added to that there are also the prizes.. (mmmmmm) that can be won here, so there's more an incentive to stick it out and share the know how.

Later,
Bill