On 31 January 2012 13:26, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 01:07 -0500, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 31 January 2012 00:54, drew <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 00:38 -0500, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> >> Hi Drew, >> >> >> >> >> >> On 31 January 2012 00:34, drew <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > I was poked by one of the folks on the forums today with regards to the >> >> > Vietnamese Language site. >> >> > >> >> > The site has been left without any native language supporters for quite >> >> > a while and is once again sprouting a nice growth of SPAM, with no real >> >> > usage by end users, at least not that I an see. >> >> > >> >> > I would like to propose the following - barring any strong objections of >> >> > couse: >> >> > >> >> > In the morning I'll start cleaning up the spam. >> >> > >> >> > On Feb 2nd will take the following steps: >> >> > >> >> > - Post a global announcement on the forum directly future requests for >> >> > help to the English language forum. >> >> > >> >> > - Disable the ability to register new accounts. >> >> > >> >> > - Lock all lists on the forum. >> >> > >> >> > This will effectively close the forum. >> >> > ///// >> >> > >> >> > The same proposal was posted to the Forum Governance board on the >> >> > English form a few minutes ago. >> >> > >> >> > Best wishes, >> >> > >> >> > Drew Jensen >> >> >> >> Have you or anyone you know contacted the former VT group? I tried a >> >> while ago (early last year) and was informed that most of the >> >> community were now in LO's fold. >> >> >> >> But that was then. >> > >> > Yes more then once with no response. >> > >> > Honestly though, the 3rd party libO forum with a VI section really isn't >> > taking off either, nor is the mailing list traffic for that matter. >> > >> > Hope springs eternal however and is why I propose locking it for now, >> > rather then just taking it down, at least for a while longer. >> >> Agree. I'd also like to reach out again to VT. The reason why V. and >> others gave for LO was that they had more positive response there than >> with Oracle's OOo. What a surprise. But as the new world is a gooder >> world, and in this nascent place there is no end of future, Why not? >> Ciao > Hi Louis, et all > > That's great if you want to try and reach out again. > > quick notes: > > 1 - no one should construe that this has anything at all to do with > Oracle or ASF or LibreOffice - the issues are long standing. > > 2 - Floris V (AKA Peter) jumped in this morning and cleaned the site up > - much appreciated. > > I'll be drafting the shutdown notice for display at the site tonight and > passing it along for review to the folks on the Admin board at the > forums. If there is anyone that could handle a translation of that from > English to Vietnamese it would be appreciated, if not will just go with > the English version. > > Thanks again, > > //drew
double plus agreed. Louis >
