Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOfficeForum.org is now functioning

[Alexandro Colorado <jza@openoffice.org>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

>  Le 2010-09-30 00:37, Sam a écrit :
>
>  Hello Document Foundation / LibreOffice,
>>
>> I just wanted to say that I appreciate very much your efforts to improve
>> upon the
>> OpenOffice suite and make it more open to everyone in the form of
>> LibreOffice. I
>> personally spend many hours every day on OpenOffice, so this new
>> initiative is very
>> important to me.
>>
>> I would like to offer to the LibreOffice community a support forum that I
>> have just
>> created on a reliable host:
>> http://libreofficeforum.org
>> It is my hope that LibreOfficeForum.org will serve as a central point for
>> English
>> language support. I am also fluent in the Spanish language, and if
>> necessary I could
>> create a similar forum for that language if you would like. I have been
>> administering
>> community forums with Drupal for quite a few years now, and I feel
>> confident that with
>> the help of some additional honest, polite moderators, we could maintain a
>> high level of
>> organization on LibreOfficeForum.org.
>>
>> Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks again for your time and efforts.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Sam
>>
>>
> From what I understand:
>
> Keep in mind though, that the Document Foundation is waiting to see if
> Oracle will donate back the trademarked "OpenOffice" name to the foundation.
> It they do, then there would be no need for this is the Document Foundation
> would only set up shop with the regular OpenOffice forums that were already
> there.
>

Right, however there is no set timelimit for an Oracle response, some had
said 2 months some have said at the end of the year, and some just 2 weeks.
So there is really not even a consensus on how long to wait.


>
> This may be nice temporarily, unless the Document Foundation is planning to
> setup their official forums under the LibreOffice.org umbrella site. Which,
> at this point we don't know. All rests on Oracle's response to the Document
> Foundation request for the name donation.
>

Moving this to a central infrastructure can always be fixable by just adding
a pointer from a subdomain, or phisically moving it to a different server.
However from my experience not everyone likes a mailing list to communicate
and you might be surprised that Forums are actually more popular than
mailing list. So having a different channel specially right now, is very
useful.  My 2 cents.



>
> Marc
>
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