On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 2010-09-30 00:37, Sam a écrit : > > Hello Document Foundation / LibreOffice, >> >> I just wanted to say that I appreciate very much your efforts to improve >> upon the >> OpenOffice suite and make it more open to everyone in the form of >> LibreOffice. I >> personally spend many hours every day on OpenOffice, so this new >> initiative is very >> important to me. >> >> I would like to offer to the LibreOffice community a support forum that I >> have just >> created on a reliable host: >> http://libreofficeforum.org >> It is my hope that LibreOfficeForum.org will serve as a central point for >> English >> language support. I am also fluent in the Spanish language, and if >> necessary I could >> create a similar forum for that language if you would like. I have been >> administering >> community forums with Drupal for quite a few years now, and I feel >> confident that with >> the help of some additional honest, polite moderators, we could maintain a >> high level of >> organization on LibreOfficeForum.org. >> >> Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks again for your time and efforts. >> >> Sincerely, >> Sam >> >> > From what I understand: > > Keep in mind though, that the Document Foundation is waiting to see if > Oracle will donate back the trademarked "OpenOffice" name to the foundation. > It they do, then there would be no need for this is the Document Foundation > would only set up shop with the regular OpenOffice forums that were already > there. > Right, however there is no set timelimit for an Oracle response, some had said 2 months some have said at the end of the year, and some just 2 weeks. So there is really not even a consensus on how long to wait. > > This may be nice temporarily, unless the Document Foundation is planning to > setup their official forums under the LibreOffice.org umbrella site. Which, > at this point we don't know. All rests on Oracle's response to the Document > Foundation request for the name donation. > Moving this to a central infrastructure can always be fixable by just adding a pointer from a subdomain, or phisically moving it to a different server. However from my experience not everyone likes a mailing list to communicate and you might be surprised that Forums are actually more popular than mailing list. So having a different channel specially right now, is very useful. My 2 cents. > > Marc > > -- > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to > [email protected]<discuss%[email protected]> > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted. > List archives are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
