I understand the logic. I am not too happy about it, but there is no perfect solution, as you pointed out.
I like the Shapado site. I am not sure we can vote up answers, which I think is a killer feature. If that is there, it would have my blessing for an official Q&A. I guess we can worry about migrating a little bit later, once the thing proves to be viable. How does that sound to everyone? Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE "Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." -James 1:4 http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com/ mlaverd.theunixplace.com On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2011-10-31 15:49, Florian Effenberger a écrit : > > Hello, >> >> thanks everyone for your feedback and your kind offers to help, that's >> really much appreciated! >> >> As for which type to use, I must say that a "normal" forum is the only >> way, IMHO. We've been experimenting with Nabble, and the result has been >> rather mixed. People prefer a forum they know, nothing else. At least >> based on my experience. >> >> There are several forums running. What I would like to have is one >> "official" LibO forum, either done by us or someone else, that is open >> for all languages, and run by a group that does not have members who >> openly show hostility towards TDF. I am not saying that everyone does >> so, but at least I have heard from some forums, where definitely FUD was >> spread, and this leaves me with bad feelings. >> >> What I took from this thread is, that there are two options: One >> de.openoffice.org, and the other one the LibreOffice forum. >> >> Anyone already got in touch with those folks? IIRC, there had been >> discussions, with some groups, and that didn't work out - but I must >> confess I don't know which ones. >> >> Honestly, my preference would be to have our own forum and see if it >> works. If not, we tried it, and we don't lose that much. >> >> Florian >> >> > I really don't think this is a case where anyone can win with any of these > decisions. If de.openoffice.org is "awarded" the care of the LibreOffice > maintenance of the forums, there will be those who will complain about it > as not being a real native LibreOffice forums. If the TDF raises its own > forums, then there will those who will complain that communities have been > broken and all of the past discussions have been lost. The LibreOffice fork > of OpenOffice has created a shift in community use/support and that is just > the reality of the situation. The code base differences between LibreOffice > and AOO will only get wider over time and LibreOffice may find itself at > this same situation later on. > > Therefore, as there would be no clear way to win, it would seem to make > the most sense for the TDF/LibreOffice to create its own forums > infrastructure, offer and invite participation of "already established" > interested forums related to LibreOffice. The TDF/LibreOffice forums could > also offer to help facilitate the migration of any historical data to its > own servers of any group wishing to join the new LibreOffice forums project. > > It is still early in the game for LibreOffice and it is the right time to > move on to its own forums services. This will in effect offer our users a > complete office suite service under the same banner that is TDF/LibreOffice. > > Marc > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > discuss+help@**documentfoundation.org<discuss%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**documentfoundation.org/www/**discuss/<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] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
