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<valterm...@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 > > > -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
