Re: [tdf-discuss] Forums... again

On 4/24/11 12:04 PM, Andy Brown wrote:
> adept techlists - kazar wrote:
>
> > Sure, leave the mailman lists up (who knows in how many places the
> > instructions for subscribing have been posted) but also please start
> > official TDF web-based support forums. I bet you'd find LibreOffice
> > users who would volunteer to moderate one or two topic categories. (I
> > raise my hand.)
>
> The only thing I have to say is that a new forum is not needed.  There 
> are two long time forums already supporting LibO and a new LibO forum. 
> The only thing that is needed/wanted is that the TDF/LibO support 
> pages have links to them.

Ah, OK, i just searched for "libreoffice forum" and found 
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/. Uncategorized, and I believe forums 
with categories are better learning tools. Plus, even though I started 
from the "en." subdomain and selected English as my language on the home 
page, when I registered a new account the email instructions were:
> Witam kazaragain,
>
> Dziękujemy za rejestrację na LibreOfficeForum.org
>
> Twoja nazwa użytkownika:       kazaragain
> Resetowanie hasła: http://libreofficeforum.org/user/password
>
> Jeżeli otrzymałeś ten e-mail przez pomyłkę, to znaczy, że ktoś 
> próbował zarejestrować na Twój e-mail konto.
> Proszę w takim przypadku nie odpowiadać na e-mail - konta nie 
> potwierdzone zostaną usunięte
>  LibreOfficeForum.org
>
> Z pozdrowieniami,
> Zespół LibreOfficeForum.org
> http://en.libreofficeforum.org

And I found another couple of similarly completely uncategorized forums.

The forums at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ look much 
more promising, but are not these two products expected to diverge more 
and more? In my understanding LibreOffice is a new project that 
_started_ with OOo code but will be building separately. Or will changes 
made to LibreOffice be merged back into OOo? Obviously I am not a 
developer so I do not understand how these "branches" or "forks" work. 
I'm not asking to be educated here, that would be OT. Just saying that 
if LibreOffice is indeed a new product that will become less and less 
like OOo it ought to have its own "official" nice forum.

Meanwhile sure, the link to 
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ should be added 
prominently on the help page of the libreoffice site. Since I am not any 
kind of expert or web developer and have little understanding of how OS 
projects work, it would be silly for me to ask to be on the web team 
just to make one edit. I hope someone more appropriate for web team 
membership does that soon.

thanks,

kazar


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