On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 04:26:18PM -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > No sure if we were talking about "empty hall", I am hoping to help > fill them. :-)
Yes, just like a night club opening with fewer floors in the early evening, so that they are not that empty -- and open more floors later. ;) > Not sure about this. We were given the mandate to concentrate on the > US market specifically. You may have noticed that there are already > few mails on the US mailing list (of which I am part), but I believe > that we are set to re-buid post-LibOCon. From what I can see, the > largest problem with the US is the lack of marcons for the group, > which has always been front-and-centre of all serious discussions. I > would favour keeping the US separate and closing the mailing list. How does keeping the US separate help kicking off a US marketing community? Better to hatch it in the marketing forum until it can fly on its own. > not sure if I like that idea. I would rather see what most users > looking for help are looking for on arrival on our forums -- a > breakdown in forums where they can locate their application section > and leave a message. Sending our users in need of help to a > soup-bowl mix of messages will only confuse them and add more > stress. I would rather have the obvious breakdown on our forums > site. If there are alpha-beta problems with any of the modules, then > it would seem to me better for our users to see them already in > their own categories. 'Open beta' has nothing to do with our releases. Its just as long as we test and explore the forum. But yes, I think we should start with a general 'applications' forum and am uncertain if a Math forum would really be helpful, if it does not attach regulars. > > - Templates are unlikely to support a forum on their own from the start. > > Yup, but on the other hand, it is a good collection point where we > can encourage ideas on templates and hope some devs will pick up on > it. Its a two-way street. If we hope to attract users to our > contributor forums/mailing lists, then we should also hope to > attract devs to our user forums. Let's give this one a shot. I am > interested in this one, particularly considering the lack of > template ideas on the lists. It will be a good collection point for > ideas. Do you think we will have some 3-5 regulars in a templates forum? If not, I would postpone separating those out until such a group condesates and asks for it. > I have no problems with this either. Although, I can see others > having problems with it. I was never too clear on what the > "projects" mailing list was all about as it seems we are all > advertising on it and discussions are happening more and more on it. > It may be better to have a "Discuss" forum with a sub-forum > "Projects" where only decided projects are announced. The discuss > list is very active and it is hard to pull projects from any of the > threads. Well, on the mailing lists, there is a benefit of separating the projects list for important 'semi-official' stuff like minutes of calls from the noise and volume of unrestrained brainstorming. However, a forum does not pollute an inbox as a mailing list does and an it is possible to move off topic threads out of it, before they create trouble. > Not sure about this. I would prefer the marketing punch of a > LibOLounge (where some of the characters look like :-b) or any other > clever stuff that our user-base can come up in a competition. and, > we should have a disclaimer sticky on it as well as the rules for > off-topic conversations. We should not be afraid to stick our name > in on the "fun room" rather than have it only associated with the > serious part of the project. Life is too short. Well, take it as a personal opinion and something for people to keep in mind when voting on the proposals in the competition. ;) Best, Bjoern _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/