Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi Jonathan, :-) http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-16 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Where would i need to sign up for the mailing list On 1/16/11 10:20 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:52, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: David please keep me in mind in regards to hosting official LO forums. would it be possible to join the next SC meeting? Jonathan, that'

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:52, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > David please keep me in mind in regards to hosting official LO forums. would > it be possible to join the next SC meeting? Jonathan, that's a decision that would be taken by the SC. You can just monitor the SC discussion list for

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-16 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
David please keep me in mind in regards to hosting official LO forums. would it be possible to join the next SC meeting? On 1/16/11 9:24 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:13, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: Speaking of support is the libreoffice irc channel even mentioned

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:13, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Speaking of support is the libreoffice irc channel even mentioned on the > site? Sure, you bet. Right on the home page... ;-) David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-16 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Speaking of support is the libreoffice irc channel even mentioned on the site? also i think things should be split off into a dev channel and main libreoffice channel for support. If they remain as they are once LO goes main stream, we will have one gigantic mess of support questions and develo

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 15:39, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I'm willing to do it, but probably the amount of traffic will kill my > internet connection :( i'm really considering migrating to a proper data > center here in Malta that has the fiber backbone to deal with the traffic. > > What

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-15 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I'm willing to do it, but probably the amount of traffic will kill my internet connection :( i'm really considering migrating to a proper data center here in Malta that has the fiber backbone to deal with the traffic. What kind of forum are we talking about. Seeing as this is an open source pr

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Wheatland
2011/1/11 Fabián Rodríguez : > On 11-01-09 08:28 PM, Andy Brown wrote: >> On Sun Jan 09 2011 07:04:12 GMT-0800 (PST)  RGB ES wrote: >>> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/ >>> They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on >>> them yet, but they exists and you can regi

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-11 Thread RGB ES
Hy, Drew! Sorry for the delay, I was not on town yesterday and there was a lot to read today ;) On one hand, I see resource splitting (and a new forum imply that resources will split: you cannot be on all places at the same time) as a problem, because it is a synonym of duplicated efforts. But on t

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Fabian, 2011/1/10 Fabián Rodríguez > On 11-01-09 08:28 PM, Andy Brown wrote: > > On Sun Jan 09 2011 07:04:12 GMT-0800 (PST) RGB ES wrote: > >> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/ > >> They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on > >> them yet, but they exists and

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-09 08:28 PM, Andy Brown wrote: > On Sun Jan 09 2011 07:04:12 GMT-0800 (PST) RGB ES wrote: >> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/ >> They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on >> them yet, but they exists and you can register ;) So my question is: >> how t

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 00:02 +0800, David Nelson wrote: > Hi Drew, :-) > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 22:11, drew wrote: > > It doesn't sound good to me. > > So can you clarify what your position is with regard to Nabble? Hi David, Sure - I would use nabble the way it is currently configured..but

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Andy Brown
On Mon Jan 10 2011 09:15:53 GMT-0800 (PST) Karl-Heinz Gödderz wrote: Hi, Stefan Weigel schrieb: Hi, Am 10.01.2011 00:51, schrieb Sigrid Carrera: Reason for not using those forums was that there are already a few (good!) fora out there and we don't want to fight against them. In contrast,

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Wheatland
On 11/01/2011 2:12 AM, "drew" wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 17:12 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: > > Hi Drew, > > > > Am 10.01.2011 16:50, schrieb drew: > > > > > But even if that where not true, there is this: LibreOffice not > > > OpenOffice. > > > > > > The application is not the same, and the

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 19:56 +0300, sophie wrote: > Hi Drew, > On 10/01/2011 19:41, drew wrote: > [...] > > > > Slightly off topic but it is part of this issue: As to the question of a > > single monolithic view of the project, all things LibreOffice will be at > > one domain, this is a basic assump

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Karl-Heinz Gödderz
Hi, Stefan Weigel schrieb: > Hi, > > Am 10.01.2011 00:51, schrieb Sigrid Carrera: > > >> Reason for not using those forums was that there are already a few >> (good!) fora out there and we don't want to fight against them. In >> contrast, I think, it was planned to link to those forums from our

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread sophie
Hi Drew, On 10/01/2011 19:41, drew wrote: [...] Slightly off topic but it is part of this issue: As to the question of a single monolithic view of the project, all things LibreOffice will be at one domain, this is a basic assumption that I an not willing to adhere to. There is great value in a

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 17:12 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: > Hi Drew, > > Am 10.01.2011 16:50, schrieb drew: > > > But even if that where not true, there is this: LibreOffice not > > OpenOffice. > > > > The application is not the same, and the organization is not the same. > > > > What part of tha

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-10 10:33 AM, Stefan Weigel wrote: > [...] > What would you say, if people came up with multiple LibreOffice > websites in parallel? What would you say, if people came up with > multiple LibreOffice mailing lists in parallel? You have every right > to open a website or mailing list about Li

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi Drew, Am 10.01.2011 16:50, schrieb drew: > But even if that where not true, there is this: LibreOffice not > OpenOffice. > > The application is not the same, and the organization is not the same. > > What part of that do you disagree with, please. The forums and other support sites (and the

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread David Nelson
Hi Drew, :-) On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 22:11, drew wrote: > It doesn't sound good to me. So can you clarify what your position is with regard to Nabble? I see it as being something somewhat apart from forums, especially as we can configure it as read-only and have an explanatory text saying that i

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 16:33 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: > Hi Drew, > > Am 10.01.2011 15:09, schrieb drew: > > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:21 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: > >> That´s why I even advocate closing down http://libreofficeforum.org/ > > > > I could not disagree more strongly. He had every

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi Drew, Am 10.01.2011 15:09, schrieb drew: > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:21 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: >> That´s why I even advocate closing down http://libreofficeforum.org/ > > I could not disagree more strongly. He had every right to open that > site, I don't like it, to say you can arbitrarily

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 12:31 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: > Hi David, > > Am 10.01.2011 11:53, schrieb David Nelson: > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 18:42, Stefan Weigel > > wrote: > >> However, I haven´t had a closer look at Nabble. And I am asking > >> myself if it could be a source of confusion f

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:21 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: > That´s why I even advocate closing down http://libreofficeforum.org/ I could not disagree more strongly. He had every right to open that site, I don't like it, to say you can arbitrarily shut it down because it does not fit with your liking

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi David, Am 10.01.2011 11:53, schrieb David Nelson: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 18:42, Stefan Weigel > wrote: >> However, I haven´t had a closer look at Nabble. And I am asking >> myself if it could be a source of confusion for unexperienced users, >> who don´t even know, what a mailing list is,

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread David Nelson
Hi Stefan, :-) On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 18:42, Stefan Weigel wrote: > However, I haven´t had a closer look at Nabble. And I am asking > myself if it could be a source of confusion for unexperienced users, > who don´t even know, what a mailing list is, if Nabble looks and > behaves almost like a fo

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi David, Am 10.01.2011 11:29, schrieb David Nelson: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 18:21, Stefan Weigel > wrote: >> However, there is lots of discussion about creating yet another >> forum. And I fear lots of energy is being put into this. Kind of >> makes me desperate. > > But given that Nabble is

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread David Nelson
Hi Stefan, * :-) On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 18:21, Stefan Weigel wrote: > However, there is lots of discussion about creating yet another > forum. And I fear lots of energy is being put into this. Kind of > makes me desperate. But given that Nabble is simply an interface onto our own mailing lists,

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi, Am 10.01.2011 00:51, schrieb Sigrid Carrera: > Reason for not using those forums was that there are already a few > (good!) fora out there and we don't want to fight against them. In > contrast, I think, it was planned to link to those forums from our > website. Yes. This has been disussed a

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread James Wilde
Sorry Ricardo - and everyone else. I've obviously missed something in here. It was presumably the Nabble interface I was thinking of. //James On Jan 9, 2011, at 16:04 , RGB ES wrote: > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/ > They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot p

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread drew
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 19:54 -0800, Andy Brown wrote: > > Since my computer time dates back to the old BBS days I prefer email > over forums but I can understand why some others would prefer forums, > for one time questions and not wanting to get overloaded with emails. > Actually, IMO, it isn

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread Andy Brown
On Sun Jan 09 2011 19:33:06 GMT-0800 (PST) drew wrote: Hi Andy You missed one - there is a new site wanting to offer LibreOffice support - one of the newer UX designs, which to me looks pretty much like taking the most common mods I see at support oriented web forums and throwing away most

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread drew
> > > > Why add another forum? There is already a LibO Forum at > http://libreofficeforum.org/forum . The "Official" OOo Forum at > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ not only supports OOo but > off shoots such as Libo, NeoOffice and StarOffice. The "Un-official" > Forum at http

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 08:24 +0800, David Nelson wrote: > Instead, we have a Nabble interface to the mailing lists: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org Personally I would not use the forum functions in the nabble interface, but as a straight view to the mailing list archives I don't see a probl

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread drew
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 16:04 +0100, RGB ES wrote: > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/ > They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on > them yet, but they exists and you can register ;) So my question is: > how those forums will be organized? There will be one for ea

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread Andy Brown
On Sun Jan 09 2011 07:04:12 GMT-0800 (PST) RGB ES wrote: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/ They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on them yet, but they exists and you can register ;) So my question is: how those forums will be organized? There will be one for

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) The idea I have presented to Christian is this: The project has decided not to use forums as such for the English NL main site on libreoffice.org Instead, we have a Nabble interface to the mailing lists: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org Nabble provides quite similar functionality to

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Sophie, *, On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: > >  PS: If I have written complete nonsense, then I'm sure, that one of > the founders / administrators will correct me. ;) No, your explanation was totally correct - the forum is only meant to allow people to create an accou

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, I feel bad to bring you bad news, but if I remember this correctly, the forum, that comes with Silverstripe won't be used. Right now it is just used for the people who want to work on the homepage to register so that they can be given the appropriate rights. Reason for not using those forums

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread James Wilde
On Jan 9, 2011, at 16:04 , RGB ES wrote: > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/ > They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on > them yet, but they exists and you can register ;) So my question is: > how those forums will be organized? There will be one for each loc

[tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-09 Thread RGB ES
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/ They are "hidden" (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on them yet, but they exists and you can register ;) So my question is: how those forums will be organized? There will be one for each local site or only one on English? Categories? Organiz