Why people espcially admins don't activate the site?

Simply coz we have not a plan for the website, and how to activate it.

Best wishes,
Shimaa

__why most articles was sent by a small set of users with some exceptions?__%%% It is the normal! We have 206 member and my theory state that in Egypt 3% only be active in volunteer activities. So we should have 6 active members. For example the top users this week ordered by activity are: *[Ahmed Hashim|http://www.egjug.org/user/1] *[Abeer|http://www.egjug.org/user/8] *[Michael Ageeb|http://www.egjug.org/user/33] *[Shimaa|http://www.egjug.org/user/7] *[Amr|http://www.egjug.org/user/26] *[aabdelaziz|http://www.egjug.org/user/36] __Why people- espcially admins- don't activate the site?__%%% I think from the top users there are 4 of 6 admins. The other admins: Please join us :) __How to motivate people to send thier questions on the forums?__%%% We wont force people to do! Also many users came to Egjug from Google as the log said. The important question is why some people post questions in Yahoo groups rather than Egjug? Simply because they don't know about. So, we should direct them to Egjug. For this reasons i creat the [newsletter|http://www.egjug.org/newletter1%20(26-1-2005).htm]. I'd like to add also that some members send topics to yahoo groups rather than reference to Egjug! __How many person really get have a periodic visit to our beloved site?__%%% Find the following statistics [http://www.egjug.org/files/images/graph_summary_barchart.php.png|http://www.egjug.org/files/images/graph_summary_barchart.php.png] -------------%%% __Ahmed Hashim__%%%

One good reason is that the majorty of the registerd users may be students who seeks answers. I think activating the new letter will make people become more interresting. Hashim, can't u add section in the news letter for 'Active Forum Qestions' so that people participate not only by reading articles, but also by responding to the forum ------------- Amr Kourany Software Engineer IBM WTC, Egypt Branchb

I don't have a real answer for this question but the JUG is here not to attract people but to help them. \\ Being an "Open Community" doesn't mean attracting more people but it means attracting people who are only interested. \\ I guess starting by reformating the structure of the forums section is a good thing because it think it needs to be more detailed. \\ There is 206 members in the JUG how much articles you expect to be posted weekly. I expect one is very good. \\ Expert members who are using somehow called "Advanced Java Technologies" prefere to ask their questions on the dedicated forums of this technologies (MyFaces got MyFaces mail list, AndroMDA got AndroMDA dedicated forum) not a general one. \\ Newbies got almost everything solved on Google. And that's why most visitors cames from google. \\ IMHO having one real professional and I mean real professional article per week is a good thing. ----- __Michael Ageeb__ \\ OpenCraft Open Source Software Developer. \\ http://Michael.Foolab.org