Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

I am not too inclined towards our own whatever for user support because a)
that's not cool to split the community b) we'll get flak on LWN et al and
c) we loose gazillion pages of answered problems that may be useful for the
next guy.

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Florian Effenberger <
floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> thanks everyone for your feedback and your kind offers to help, that's
> really much appreciated!
>
> As for which type to use, I must say that a "normal" forum is the only
> way, IMHO. We've been experimenting with Nabble, and the result has been
> rather mixed. People prefer a forum they know, nothing else. At least based
> on my experience.
>
> There are several forums running. What I would like to have is one
> "official" LibO forum, either done by us or someone else, that is open for
> all languages, and run by a group that does not have members who openly
> show hostility towards TDF. I am not saying that everyone does so, but at
> least I have heard from some forums, where definitely FUD was spread, and
> this leaves me with bad feelings.
>
> What I took from this thread is, that there are two options: One
> de.openoffice.org, and the other one the LibreOffice forum.
>
> Anyone already got in touch with those folks? IIRC, there had been
> discussions, with some groups, and that didn't work out - but I must
> confess I don't know which ones.
>
> Honestly, my preference would be to have our own forum and see if it
> works. If not, we tried it, and we don't lose that much.
>
>
> Florian
>
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