Top posting.
What a very interesting discussion!
For the record, the link to the German forum is in the Survival Guide of the forum
since quite the beginning:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=166#p716
I agree, we should add the link on the landing page (which has still an old logo BTW).
Adding something like "(3rd party)" would be fine.
We had already asked the German moderators (a long time ago) if they were
interested in joining the EN and the other locales. But they declined so we
never asked again since.
Note that the independence of the (EN) forum is a basic that was agreed on from
the very beginning. LibO is still in the banner. The orientation depends a lot
on the contributors. On the EN forum, there are much more AOO users than LibO
but it doesn't mean that we don't reply LibO questions.
We raised this point (support for AOO vs. LibO) once among Volunteers and the
conclusion was that for the moment, the code was similar enough between both
suites and it was relevant to reply both types of questions.
Hagar
Le 26/05/2014 13:24, Andrea Pescetti a écrit :
Jörg Schmidt wrote:
I suggest on the website https://forum.openoffice.org/ the following text to
add:
"DE es gibt es bisher kein deutschsprachiges Unterforum, wir empfehlen die Nutzung
des externen deutschen Forums http://de.openoffice.info";
(translation: "DE there is so far no German speaking sub-forum, we recommend the use
of the external German Forum http://de.openoffice.info";)
I must clarify what I wrote. I meant it's fine to link to third-party resources
from the DE website, I didn't have the forum homepage in mind; and I now see
that indeed this is done at
http://www.openoffice.org/de/foren.html reachable from the DE homepage after
clicking on the support option.
So, without adding any new external links, I'd recommend we do the following
instead: edit https://forum.openoffice.org/ so that it has the additional
record (to be translated to German):
DE - Third party forums in German
and it links to
http://www.openoffice.org/de/foren.html
where you can give more explanations if needed, or rearrange the listing or
whatever.
*If there was no opposition in the next 3 days, I will carry out the proposed
changes.*
You can't change https://forum.openoffice.org/ since that homepage (a plain
HTML/PHP file) is maintained directly on the forum servers. Anyway, since it's
just a text+link performing the change is not so bad once we have agreement.
On http://de.openoffice.info many years we have clearly identified that there
is an independent forum:
The official forum is "independent" too, in the sense that it offers support
for OpenOffice and derivatives (it's in the forum header, just open
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ ) without making preferences: users are equal.
Two things that are not covered here are:
- as I wrote yesterday, we'll need to discuss trademarks usage on
openoffice.info (this is also a reason why I'm opposing that we add a direct
link from the Forum homepage to that specific third-party service); this can be
addressed later and on the appropriate channels.
- a possible migration so that the two forums are hosted on the same platform:
if on one side you don't need help with PHPBB administration, on the other side
the official forum may use some system administration help! So there are still
some gains in joining efforts.
Regards,
Andrea.
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