Hi, On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 10:22:06PM +0800, Florian Kielenbeck wrote: > My name is Florian Kielenbeck. I am a moderator at the german > Gentoo-Forum http://www.gentooforum.de.
My name is Wernfried Haas, I am administrator of the official Forums on https://forums.gentoo.org, which also includes a German section. > For more than three years know we provided a platform for the german > gentoo-community. Who is we? I have followed the history of gentooforum.de, and as far i know the original owner gave/sold the domain to someone else. Furthermore the German community has lots of platforms on both www.gentoo.de as well as within the gentoo.org domain, including the German forums on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=28. In fact, i see only little use in splitting the community by having yet another forum - i said that when gentooforum.de was announced (without prior contact to the "official" German community) 3 years ago and i still don't see the point. > However, we are missing some Salt in our soup and so we would like > to invite all german-speaking developers to our forum. Dude, it's our lucky day if the developers show up on the official forums, they usually hide on irc and mailing lists (apart from a few brave warriors that frequent even the forums) :-) > We have recognized, that the german community is probably one of the > strongest in the world and we would like to help to keep that > situation. In what way does gentooforum.de contribute to the community apart from giving them a forum that rather splits the community than support it? > With some developers on board, we could provide 1st-class > support for users Read: "We need some developers to show off and get more people on our forums pages because more people click more ads. > and organize community-events like meetings or fairs. That's nothing specific to gentooforum.de and has even been done outside your forum, if you care about the community join us instead of trying to get people over to your place. > We are looking forward to see *you* on www.gentooforum.de, helping > to keep the german community chained together! How does it help chain the community together? In fact, all i see are topics being duplicated on both f.g.o and gentooforum.de or even crossposted. All i see from gentooforum.de are questionable attempts to build up _their_ community without even thinking about the community as a whole. Sorry for the strong words, but imho gentooforum.de always did more damage than help anyone. cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org IRC: #gentoo-forums on freenode - email: forum-mods at gentoo dot org
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