On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:33:46PM -0500, Justin Larmon wrote:
> I am an admin at Suseforums.net along with Keith. I wanted to respond
> with my ideas. I am curious as to why there is such a push to have an
> "official" forum. Why not try out first what Pascal & Eberhard were
> saying and raise the communication level between the different forums
> and the mailing list. Try to work with what is already existing
> instead of adding and diluting things some more. If after a few months
> things aren't working any in the way the community wants, revisit this
> discussion and then come up with a plan for or against an "official"
> forum. These are just my thoughts.
I peronaly do not see it as a 'push'. I see it as a discussion to find out
what our possibilaties are. If it were really a push, then the forums
would have been made and no questions asked.
That the questions ARE asked is due to the fact that the not overseeing
the existing ones is very important. It is (I think) more important then
yes or no to having own forums.
It should be about bringing the comunity much closer together. At this
moment there is an undecided. Therev is however dialoge and that is always
a good thing.
At this moment I can see several scenarios, concerning the the forums:
1) Yes, we make forum.opensuse.org
2) No, we don't make forum.opensuse.org
The above could be decide after a trial period, as described above.
3) We make one, but the subjects are limited to opensuse related issues,
so no technical things, only comunity things
The last one would be something like the already existing opensuse
mailinglists, so no technical questions. It would give a voice to those
who are unwilling to use an email-list.
Now before you start shouting: "If they want to be eard, they should
subscribe!", hear me out.
This is about openSUSE. It is not about suse-linux-e. And not even all
mailinglists must or should have a sister-forum. The objections might be
that things could be posted twice. My answer to that is: the moderators
should be looking out for things that happen on that forum (That is about
openSUSE, not about technical questions) and report it back to the list.
This should NOT exclude the role of the existing forums. As far as I can
see, the other forums out there are about SUSE. I am talking about a forum
about openSUSE, not SUSE.
houghi
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