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

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 20:03 +0200, Per Eriksson wrote:
> 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

Hello Per,

Have no idea what you are talking about - they already are.

Drew

> 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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