To follow up on this. Locked the forum down a few minutes ago.
Failed to get a Vi translation of the shutdown notice so went with both English and French. - included a call for anyone interested in helping revive the site, along with a link to the forum admin board as a way to start the process. //drew On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 13:27 -0500, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > On 31 January 2012 13:26, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 01:07 -0500, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 31 January 2012 00:54, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 00:38 -0500, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> >> Hi Drew, > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On 31 January 2012 00:34, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > >> >> > Hi, > >> >> > > >> >> > I was poked by one of the folks on the forums today with regards to > >> >> > the > >> >> > Vietnamese Language site. > >> >> > > >> >> > The site has been left without any native language supporters for > >> >> > quite > >> >> > a while and is once again sprouting a nice growth of SPAM, with no > >> >> > real > >> >> > usage by end users, at least not that I an see. > >> >> > > >> >> > I would like to propose the following - barring any strong objections > >> >> > of > >> >> > couse: > >> >> > > >> >> > In the morning I'll start cleaning up the spam. > >> >> > > >> >> > On Feb 2nd will take the following steps: > >> >> > > >> >> > - Post a global announcement on the forum directly future requests for > >> >> > help to the English language forum. > >> >> > > >> >> > - Disable the ability to register new accounts. > >> >> > > >> >> > - Lock all lists on the forum. > >> >> > > >> >> > This will effectively close the forum. > >> >> > ///// > >> >> > > >> >> > The same proposal was posted to the Forum Governance board on the > >> >> > English form a few minutes ago. > >> >> > > >> >> > Best wishes, > >> >> > > >> >> > Drew Jensen > >> >> > >> >> Have you or anyone you know contacted the former VT group? I tried a > >> >> while ago (early last year) and was informed that most of the > >> >> community were now in LO's fold. > >> >> > >> >> But that was then. > >> > > >> > Yes more then once with no response. > >> > > >> > Honestly though, the 3rd party libO forum with a VI section really isn't > >> > taking off either, nor is the mailing list traffic for that matter. > >> > > >> > Hope springs eternal however and is why I propose locking it for now, > >> > rather then just taking it down, at least for a while longer. > >> > >> Agree. I'd also like to reach out again to VT. The reason why V. and > >> others gave for LO was that they had more positive response there than > >> with Oracle's OOo. What a surprise. But as the new world is a gooder > >> world, and in this nascent place there is no end of future, Why not? > >> Ciao > > Hi Louis, et all > > > > That's great if you want to try and reach out again. > > > > quick notes: > > > > 1 - no one should construe that this has anything at all to do with > > Oracle or ASF or LibreOffice - the issues are long standing. > > > > 2 - Floris V (AKA Peter) jumped in this morning and cleaned the site up > > - much appreciated. > > > > I'll be drafting the shutdown notice for display at the site tonight and > > passing it along for review to the folks on the Admin board at the > > forums. If there is anyone that could handle a translation of that from > > English to Vietnamese it would be appreciated, if not will just go with > > the English version. > > > > Thanks again, > > > > //drew > > double plus agreed. > Louis > > >
