Hi :) +1 I've not been a long term user (or contributor) of the site but i agree with Dave Barton about this.
Maybe if a one or 2 of us could approach the owner? Let him know there might be a way for him to retain control but also make it easier for him to manage? It sounds like a simple day-to-day chore took down the website and that could be taken care of by someone or some organisation he could delegate that sort of thing too? Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Dave Barton <d...@tasit.net> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2013, 12:40 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] shifting focus to licencing > > >Nino Novak wrote: >> Am 14.08.2013 18:39, schrieb Dave Barton: >>> Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: >>>> On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote: >>>>> 1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent "unofficial" one Jim was >>>>> referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server >>>>> is at best unreliable and frequently times out. >>>> oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person with >>>> no help from anyone else in any way. So, it uses resources available to >>>> this person and is maintained by this person. The other forum is >>>> maintained by a group of volunteers so there are more people to fix it. >> so this looks to me like people have contributed to a site which took >> their knowledge but later did (or does) not present it back to the >> public in a satisfactory way. > >Based on my years of experience as a user of the site, I seriously doubt >that this was/is the owner's intention. > >> Two thoughts: >> >> 1 - Does the owner sufficently understand the public need for high >> availability of the forum's content? > >I am convinced that he does. The problem appears to be twofold: > 1. His personal workload prevents him from giving sufficient attention >to server administration and spam elimination. > 2. His reluctance to accept much (if any) outside assistance. > >> 2 - How is the forum's content licenced? > >I have never found any notice on the site to indicate what the content >licence is. IANAL, but the absence of such I notice and no mention of >content licensing in the "Registration Agreement Terms", would lead me >to believe the content is public domain, just like this email. > >> Nino > >The good news is that the site is currently accessible, albeit with the >usual amount of spam adorning the main page. > >Dave > > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
