harryc wrote: > Dear list, > I've read every single thread/post on this topic,
wow!! congratulations :-) and as a SUSE webforum > user and moderator I have this to say. (... I read all) thanks for your writing. Let me give my opinion (not Novells one). I don't like/use forums, so I may have an external point of view of some value. When we say we need our own forum, it's a way to say we need to have a point to which redirect people asking for help. We already have a "communicate" page on the wiki, but when we a face to face, with a question, we can't for now send the people to any link with real confidence (and why this and not an other). And do the forum users quote the opensuse website at all ? (I really don't know, I hope they do, of course). I think there is a solution for both according our problems and using your experience: that is creating an "associated web forum owners/moderators group". In this groups, could come any forum, list, wiki, list owner/moderator that wants to. Coming in, they should agree to take care of any other member of the group, link they sites respectively and participate at least as reader to an opensuse admin list where the collective problems could be shared. After that, the open suse wiki could "label" or simply make more visible the links to the given forums/mailing lists/wikis... So why?? Because this could set up a direct link between opensuse members, forum and such admins and moderators, give knowledge and confidence between them. Shared with I18n pages, the list of such links should be short and easily readable by users. Users could also see that the community is ONE (sort of a webring) In fact this discussion shows we mostly lack of link between active members of all sorts. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Quelques images: http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
