OT: Invitation to help improve Israeli internet [mybroadband]

[Gadi Cohen]

Hi Linux-il Friends

One of the things that I've always felt missing since moving to Israel
has been the lack of a place to discuss Israeli internet.  Depending on
the problem, I usually either use Google and land up on any number of
local websites (usually only vaguely related to the topic at hand), or
in my case and for the same reasons, I usually post an OT post here on
this list, since the people here are the exactly the informed and
experienced people I want to hear back from.

I will explain the rationale further below, but to jump straight to the
point, I am (rather ambitiously) starting a bunch of forums on my
MyBroadband.co.il site, here

     http://mybroadband.co.il/forums/

and would love you to be a part of it.  So:

1) Please let me know if something like this already exists and I am
wasting my time :)

2) Please feel free to add even just links to relevant existing material
on other websites.

3) Please feel free to get involved and add your own material -- go wild.

4) Please feel free to invite anyone else who you feel could contribute,
but at this point, no regular users (the idea is that if there is
interest, we will first build up a collection of good material before
inviting regular users -- if relevant)

More info:

As mentioned before, my main problem is that this kind of info is
dispersed all over the Israeli internet, hard to find and usually on
irrelevant websites.  I've never been able to find a single site that
brings all these kind of discussions together, although I admit my
limited Hebrew may have stopped me.

The idea is based on a website of the same name and same idea in South
Africa, where it has been hugely successful.  Even to the extent of the
ISPs offering special packages to MyBroadband users there, or responding
personally on the forum to accusations, etc.  This is way more power
than the Israeli consumer currently has, where they are basically all
tricked into paying the highest possible amount for their internet
package, and generally accept many false promises and poor service from
their ISP.

Beyond that, I'd also love to create an environment where Israeli
internet users can help each other, share experiences, etc, etc.  I
realize this is also very ambitious, especially since I am not a native
language Hebrew speaker, but this is something I felt has been lacking
for 10 years and no one else has come to address it (that I'm aware of -
again, corrent me if I'm wrong).

Obviously the key element is community, and hence my invitation for you
to get involved.  I'm been a member of this mailing list for about 12
years now I think, and many of you have helped me over the years... in
case there is some interest in this project, of course members of this
list are eligible to be moderators / admins with suitable investment of
time and effort.

I'd love to hear your thoughts... if possible on the forum itself, since
this is OT, although I do think that a bunch of Linux enthusiasts
spearheading this kind of project, would be a very good thing for the
Israeli Linux community too :)

Gadi

P.S.  There's a lot of old material on the Wiki part of the site (mostly
from 2007) which you can ignore.  You might remember the Bank W3C
compliance page from back then (I guess I should add a Chrome icon to
the list... :)).

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Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer <dragon at wastelands.net> www.wastelands.net
Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast
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