On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller <cscha...@linuxrising.org> wrote: > Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it > would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up. >
Probably a lack of active volunteers. I didn't remember it being this bad. It can work if we get a large enough volunteer pool who are willing ot do spam filtering and also a better infrastructure. It isn't worth putting the effort unless we can at least get a minimal of 5-6 volunteers to manage the forums. sri > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote: >> >> The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it should >> be live again soon. >> >> cheers, >> >> >> 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> >>> >>> I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really looks >>> like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.org with a big >>> plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and >>> possibly by a team of moderators. >>> >>> As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time and >>> the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap. >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> [1] http://www.discourse.org/ >>> >>> >>> 2013/10/14 Christian Persch <c...@gnome.org> >>>> >>>> Hi; >>>> >>>> we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official >>>> forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/ under >>>> 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the GNOME >>>> logo. >>>> >>>> However, those forums are overrun with spam: >>>> >>>> - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on the >>>> forums) are spam words. >>>> >>>> - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at >>>> http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content >>>> itself is all spam, as well. >>>> >>>> So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think >>>> we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should >>>> rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Christian >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> foundation-list mailing list >>>> foundation-list@gnome.org >>>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Andrea >>> >>> Debian Developer, >>> Fedora / EPEL packager, >>> GNOME Sysadmin, >>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman >>> >>> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> >> Andrea >> >> Debian Developer, >> Fedora / EPEL packager, >> GNOME Sysadmin, >> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman >> >> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-list mailing list >> foundation-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
