On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:30 AM, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > 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 >
If users will find it less confusing I am all forward for it. +1 -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org -- 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
