On 5 September 2011 22:28, David McKay <dmc...@btconnect.com> wrote: > Another > thing to consider though is that we currently run 10 forums. Running a few > others wouldn't be too much of a stretch. Are there any other projects or > products within Apache that might benefit from a forum structure?
The users of the majority of Apache projects are technical users who are very comfortable in a mailing list. OOo users are a different beast. I'm not sure any other Apache projects *need* a forum. I don't think any have lobbied the infrastructure team to provide one. However, if there were forums available then it is not unlikely that other projects would avail themselves of the services. > We have to > walk before we run, but long-term once we have an agreed working scheme for > the Apache OO forums, it shouldn't take too much to drop another > project/product into the same sort of framework. Thank you for your offer. I think this is really important to the ASF. We are exploring new territory for the ASF with respect to managing user focussed forums of this type. Having people like you and your co-moderators on hand to help us do that is really important. I can certainly imagine a day when we will be nominating some people who make such contributions to the foundation for Membership. For now we should, as you say, get the Apache OOo situation resolved first. Ross
