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

 Hi Drew,

When we have our forum set up, i think it would be a very good idea to 
contact these site owners and asking them to contribute to this foundation.

Maybe this is a task when we have got our forum up and running?

Once again, i think this is a very good idea

Best

Per

Drew Jensen skrev 2010-10-06 15:08:
> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 14:33 +0200, Ercole Carpanetto wrote:
> > On 6 October 2010 12:32, Valter Mura<valtermura@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > In data giovedì 30 settembre 2010 13:34:39, Joaquín Bruno Huete ha sc
> > ri
> > > tto:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I agree that it is better to have 1 big forum in English with sub-forums
> > > in
> > > > other languages when required.
> > > +1
> > +1
> Hi
>
> Sidestepping the question of one grand forum with NL sub-forums for a
> moment.
>
> I just want to remind folks that the community already has a number of
> web forums at it's disposable. These are all independent volunteer,
> "community", owned and run.
>
> http://Oooforum.org - English only
>
> http://user.services.openoffice.org - Chinese, Dutch, English, French,
> Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Nerthlands, Polish, Spanish, and
> Vietnamese
>
> http://de.openoffice.info/ - German
>
> http://ooo-portal.de/ - German
>
> http://www.openofficeorg.no/Forumsider/ - Norwegien
>
> brOffice.org runs it's own forum also.
>
> (probably forgot someone)
>
> I want stress again
> - none of those belong to Oracle
> - none are staffed by Oracle employees
> - they are all run by community members.
>
> One more point
> - the forums serve the end users
> - the end users did not have a say in what is going on here
> - they will need to have support for OO.o and LibreOffice for a while
>
> In two cases oooForum.org and user.servics.oo.o I can tell you that I
> have personally exchanged messages with the administrators and many
> (most) of the moderators at those forums.
>
> Every person I spoke with already downloaded and installed LibreOffice.
>
> They are already offering support to those users that come asking
> questions.
>
> These boards have been updated with links to the mailing lists here, via
> the nabble pages - I know I did it.
>
> The moderators have been supplied the URLs for the LibreOffice issue
> tracking system, and know of course to also look at the other issue
> tracking systems for a whole.
>
> As for branding at the forums - no site has fully changed yet - and if
> you listen to what the steering committee here is saying then they
> probably shouldn't for the moment. Remember these aren't from scratch
> they have existing infrastructure, there are literally tens of thousands
> of links that exist to these sites all over the Internet.
>
> I am totally in support of people wanting to help and there is plenty of
> room for the owner of LibreOfficeForum.org to start another forum, but
> there is no reason to act as if the community is starved for user
> support sites.
>
> The best thing, IMO, for the moment is to have the site here start
> pointing to these different sites.
>
> Just my thoughts.
>
> Hopefully someone else can update us on the other language forums, but I
> would very surprised if it isn't the same situation at those sites.
>
> Thanks
>
> Drew

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