>so - If you think that neither of the OO.o forums are good alternatives >what would you suggest?
If http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum is going to be sticking around, I'd happily suggest it, but I just don't know what Oracle will do with it. Jason Corfman [email protected] - www.corfyscorner.com ---------------------------------------------- Take back the Internet! www.getfirefox.com and www.getthunderbird.com ---------------------------------------------- Get Legal - Get LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org Linux user #384496 - Ubuntu User #15390 On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:34 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 20:15 -0400, Jason Corfman wrote: > > >From my perspective, there are two major OpenOffice.org forums, and if > you > > ask me, right now, neither are very good alternatives. > > > > The first is http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum. While it is a > > community forum, it was set up back in 2007 on (then) Sun servers, which > are > > currently controlled by Oracle. Considering last week's announcement from > > Oracle about turning OpenOffice.org over to the community, you have to > > wonder how long Oracle will allow that forum to be hosted on their > servers, > > and if it gets booted off, where will it go? > > Hi Jason, > > I think that is precisely what prompted Ricardo to venture over here and > ask the question he did - he and some of others where looking to reach > out and see if this group might be willing to step in if that happened - > It didn't go so well. > > so - If you think that neither of the OO.o forums are good alternatives > what would you suggest? > > Also - There is already ancillary forums going up that are LibreOffice > specific, or at least carry the LibO name, two are German language only > (one straight phpBB and one a Joomla mod) and one multi language (a > Drupal mod), including English and German for that matter, so three > German language web forums already . > > Thanks > > Drew Jensen > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
