Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-20 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 11/20/12 9:22 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> Rob Weir wrote: This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot o

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >>> noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated >>> questions, some of them quit

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:00 PM, F C. Costero wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> Rob Weir wrote: This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog p

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On 11/14/2012 08:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is mantaining such FAQs. this remind me of a xkcd http://xkcd.com/927/ :) and I hear ya on the maintenance front. On 11/14/12, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >>> noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated >>> questions, some of them qui

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 11/15/12, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado >> wrote: >> >>> actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is >>> mantaining such FAQs. >>> this remind me of a xkcd >>> http://x

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >> noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated >> questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be >> a lot of goo

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be a lot of good questions out there. They could range from "How do I..." to 'Why did

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is >> mantaining such FAQs. >> this remind me of a xkcd >> http://xkcd.com/927/ >> >> On 11/14/12, Kay Schen

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > We used Google Moderator before and it is really nice thing to use. I like > the base of the idea, but I have one question what about the questions > coming from users through the user(s)@ mailing list ? Would that make them > feel iso

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Joining a mailing list means signing up and wading through lots of emails > one is not interested in. This proposal is a way to reach out to people who > have a question but not the desire to engage with the community. There is > no risk of is

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Ross Gardler
Joining a mailing list means signing up and wading through lots of emails one is not interested in. This proposal is a way to reach out to people who have a question but not the desire to engage with the community. There is no risk of isolation since these people wont come to those chanels. Note th

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
We used Google Moderator before and it is really nice thing to use. I like the base of the idea, but I have one question what about the questions coming from users through the user(s)@ mailing list ? Would that make them feel isolated in case some of them would not like to use Google Moderator for

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Ross Gardler
What a great idea. I'm copying this to the ComDev list so others can consider it. Having said that this one reason this would work for AOO is that it has such a large non-technical user community., something that's not really true of other Apache projects. If any projects adapt the idea please fee

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is > mantaining such FAQs. > this remind me of a xkcd > http://xkcd.com/927/ > > On 11/14/12, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > >

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is mantaining such FAQs. this remind me of a xkcd http://xkcd.com/927/ On 11/14/12, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >> noticed

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I > noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated > questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be > a lot of good questions out there. They co

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread RGB ES
2012/11/15 Rob Weir > This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I > noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated > questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be > a lot of good questions out there. They could range from "How do > I...

Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be a lot of good questions out there. They could range from "How do I..." to 'Why did you..." to "What i