On 10/08/2010 05:17 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
There are two OpenOffice.org web fora:
One is at http://www.oooforum.org and is called OOoForum.org
The English version of the other is at
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum and is called
OpenOffice.org Community Forum
Why two? What is the difference between them? Why not consolidate?
???
Hello Harold,
OOoForum.org is a privately owned site, opened as such when the owner
(an early active community member) was unable to workout details about
opening a web forum with the governing structure of OpenOffice.org at
the time.
In 2007 the site had grown to the point that it was having some
performance problems. A group of active individuals on the site decided
to launch a new site. The group of users began calling themselves the
OpenOffice.org Community Volunteers, with it's initial focus on putting
plans in place should the OOoForum.org no longer be viable.
This group began looking for possible hosting and funding options. A
number of offers came to the group for hosting, one of these was from
Sun Microsystems in Hamburg DE (OpenOffice.org in other words) offering
use of a server in the offices there.
At that point the group asked the owner of OOoForum.org to consider
moving that site to this new server. The owner declined, so the
User.Services.OpenOffice.org site opened, while OOoForum.org was still
active. One effect of this was that the User services forum opened with
an empty database and needed to build up it's knowledge base from scratch.
The OOoForum.org owner later upgraded, at his own cost, the dedicated
server that site runs on and the data center provider committed to keep
it on the net.
As it turned out there was indeed plenty of demand to go around.
In July of this year, with the 3.2 release of OO.o both forums hit new
highs in activity with the User Services site hitting 80,000 unique
visitors per day and OOoForum 75,000.
As for differences - for one the user services site has expanded to open
forums for other languages, currently offering 10 languages, while
OOoForum is English only. The sites both run phpBB with OOoForum running
a customized copy of version 2.x and User services the latest 3.x
version. OooForum is still a single owner and User services is still a
volunteer governed site, with the number of voting members in the
Volunteer group growing from the initial 15 to 82 as of today.
One last thing, Ed Burke, the owner of OOoForum has maintained that site
for nearly 10 years now, putting in many hours of his own time and
money earning both my gratitude and respect.
The OOoForum site has been hosted for all of this time at
UnitedLayer.com and they certainly deserve a large and sincere thank you.
Best wishes,
Drew
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