On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 06:16 -0400, drew wrote: <snip> > > Yesterday I initiated a conversation with the OO.o Community Forum > administrators about opening a LibreOffice specific sub-forum at the > site. This is a large step beyond just having the name LibreOffice in > the header. > > (as an aside, and since there seems to be some confusion on this - the > Community Forum is not official in that Oracle has no ownership or > management role in the forum, it offers gratis hosting services only, > the site is owned and managed by the Volunteers Group within the forum) > > The LibreOffice forum would be a sub-form within the overall site > structure, and as such can be referenced directly from a URL - so for > instance instead of listing "OpenOffice.org User Services Forum" on our > support page the link could be "LibreOffice Forum at OpenOffice.org > Community Forums" and have the link take the user directly to the > LibreOffice specific section. > > The LibreOffice sub-forum would be added at the lop level of the English > OO.o Forum (for now this would be the English forum only), for > visibility to suers enter the forums normally. (NOT at the Language > level which is the very top of the site hierarchy) > > This would be a flat forum, no module breakdown, so this is a compromise > for now - of course the module areas are available as normal to the > users and moderators can move messages to appropriate area when needed. > > I'll skip more details for this email, but can cover those as needed. > > So where is that is - One of the moderators wrote a, well thought out, > argument against doing this, another wrote a strong argument for doing > this (including possibilities as to where this could lead) - each asked > a few questions of me during that and the responses are included. > > Today, I will create a voting poll for the general membership (Vols > Group) an draft a message to the members presenting the idea and calling > for the vote. The poll will run for 7 days or until all members have > voted, if 7 days a simple majority will carry the vote. >
Just to follow up on this: A few arguments pro and con where added to the discussion over night from some of the senior moderator crew. The message has been mailed to each member of the Volunteer group and the poll is now open for voting - Poll closes on May 4th. Thanks (and sorry for my poor typing skills) Drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
