On Wednesday 25 January 2006 09:25, Sonja Krause-Harder wrote: .<snip> > The first question is: do we need/want an official openSUSE web forum? > Why? What would you expect from it, compared to the existing SUSE > community forums?
I think so. The communicate page does give all the users a way to find and participate in forums, mailing lists, etc, thats true... but I believe a more directly accessible forum through opensuse.org would be easier and preferable. I would also like to note suseforums.net, my preferred suse forum, has been down for several days now with a note of "Account Suspended". I'm not sure whats going on, and I'm sure the admins are working towards a solution... but theres no other place to go for information about suseforums.net but suseforums.net. Atleast with an opensuse.org forum, any issues would be known and posted about on the wiki. > - We do not want to take resources away from the distribution itself or > the work on the build service to set up and maintain a web forum, as > we don't see it as a high priority for the openSUSE project at the > moment. If you don't agree, we would like to hear your feedback now. I agree and disagree. I believe that the efforts dedicated to the distribution should continue as such (and many thanks in regards to the high quality releases :) ), but I feel that a forum should be a reasonably high priority. Many can't keep up with mailing lists and such, and just need a simple place for thread-style answers to their questions. Also, resolving problems in the forum, and being on the same site as the wiki, would encourage people answering questions to post a final explanation and solution on the wiki. I think this will greatly help the HCL, etc, etc on the site. > - When we started the openSUSE project, we wanted to honor the existing > SUSE community. This means that we would like to integrate them into > the openSUSE project if and as much as desired, and that we don't want > to create competition to existing community projects. Understandable, but I personally think a single, official forum as part of opensuse.org helps the community by having a unified resource center. > - We were offered to use a new forum solution provided by another > Novell department. However, at the moment we do not know when this > solution would be available. It would also be most likely a closed > source solution. On the plus side, there is an existing user community > already answering support questions (as on all the other forums linked > from the opensuse.org wiki). I think the F/LOSS route would be the best way to go... > - Create a new forum running on an open source web forum software and > name it the official one. This can be hosted either at Novell or > elsewhere, accessible through forums.opensuse.org. (This would be a > competing project as described above.) This gets my vote... Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
