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

 Le 2010-09-30 00:50, Alexandro Colorado a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com 
> <mailto: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.
As long as Sam is aware of this. It would be great if a forums board 
were organized for now. It may in fact help with organizing the mailist 
messages before they start getting out of hand. It would also be great 
if someone from the Document Foundation gave the community a green light 
to organize it this way until the name change is set in stone. They may 
have had something (such as this) in mind to help out temporarily. 
Apparently the usenet discussion groups have been proposed and they are 
just waiting for the OK from the Gmane group.

Marc