Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

On 11-01-09 08:28 PM, Andy Brown wrote:
> On Sun Jan 09 2011 07:04:12 GMT-0800 (PST)  RGB ES wrote:
> > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/
> > They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on
> > them yet, but they exists and you can register ;) So my question is:
> > how those forums will be organized? There will be one for each local
> > site or only one on English? Categories? Organization (moderators,
> > etc.)?
> > Regards
> > Ricardo
>
> Why add another forum?  There is already a LibO Forum at
> http://libreofficeforum.org/forum .  The "Official" OOo Forum at
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ not only supports OOo
> but off shoots such as Libo, NeoOffice and StarOffice.  The
> "Un-official" Forum at http://www.oooforum.org/ is the oldest and
> largest OOo related support forum around and has received LibO
> questions and answers in the past few months.
>
> Andy

I just registered to http://libreofficeforum.org and I am fairly certain
it uses Drupal. I took the liberty to contact its creator and he's
already indicated he's willing to collaborate:

"I would be glad to see LibreOfficeForum.org as the official forum. I
personally am not a developer, and I don't have any official role in
LibreOffice. For years I have been a heavy user of OpenOffice, spending
many hours on it every day. And now I'm sure that the way forward is
LibreOffice. I'm not an expert yet, just a heavy user. ;-)

I created the site immediately after LibreOffice was announced, because
I saw that they had no web forums, and I personally don't like mailing
lists. And I know that there are several unofficial forums as well for
OpenOffice (like oooforum.org), so I'm sure that this site could also
occupy that role if the Document Foundation doesn't approve it officially.

It appears likely that LibreOffice will continue to diverge more and
more from the code base of OpenOffice, and it would be confusing to see
bugs and support requests for two different products in the same forum.
So for that reason I would personally recommend that the Document
Foundation not continue to use the same user.services.openoffice.org
forum for LibreOffice.

- Sam"

I supposed someone from TDF / steering committee could maintain this
contact more formally than me, I hope I am not overstepping anyone when
doing this.

Cheers,

Fabian

--
LibreOffice questions ? Des questions sur LibreOffice ? Preguntas acerca
de LibreOffice ? Ask LibreOffice: http://libreoffice.shapado.com/
~
Fabián Rodríguez
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:MagicFab


-- 
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+help@documentfoundation.org
Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/
*** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***