Le 2010-09-30 00:50, Alexandro Colorado a écrit :
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
As long as Sam is aware of this. It would be great if a forums board
were organized for now. It may in fact help with organizing the mailist
messages before they start getting out of hand. It would also be great
if someone from the Document Foundation gave the community a green light
to organize it this way until the name change is set in stone. They may
have had something (such as this) in mind to help out temporarily.
Apparently the usenet discussion groups have been proposed and they are
just waiting for the OK from the Gmane group.
Marc
