I agree; embrace, extend, but couldn't we also pull everyone together?
We could do something like integrate forums, aggregate RSS feeds... It
would be nice if the OpenSuse community could elect webmasters or
delegates to create these types of interactions...



On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:40 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:

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> Peter Flodin wrote:
> > On 12/10/05, Michael K. Dolan Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Is there an "official" OpenSuse web forum (like forums.gentoo.org)?
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Depends what you mean with "official". The only thing "official" could mean 
> is "hosted on
> opensuse.org". This is a *community* effort. It's us.
> 
> Novell wants to avoid reinventing the wheel when existing SUSE community 
> apparels already exist.
> This is particularely true for forums.
> When you read the "Communicate" page on the opensuse.org wiki:
> 
> http://www.opensuse.org/Communicate#Web_Forums
> 
> you can see that we already have a few of them.
> 
> It's very important not to discard or duplicate what a few committed people 
> have already created
> before the "openSUSE move". That would be like showing them the finger in the 
> middle of your hand.
> We should embrace and extend, not replace or duplicate.
> 
> > After a discussion here earlier, we were informed that the topic would
> > be raised at an internal openSUSE meeting, and the result reported
> > back to the list.
> > 
> > Now when 10.0 is out of the way, I hope this can be given some
> > attention, as the way I see it, everyday we don't have a forum, we
> > lose an opportunity to capture end-users in our community.
> 
> We'll probably have to wait two more weeks to get stuff done, as a few key 
> people in the SUSE 10.0 /
> openSUSE teams are currently on holidays, now that 10.0 is out (at least AJ 
> and Sonja are).
> 
> cheers
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>   -o) Pascal Bleser     http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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