Hi,
At 05:52 10-11-2011, Augustine Souza wrote:
For the new forum ...
My request is that background images for functional content be kept
to a minimum for reasons of accessibility.
Some people may want to have a different color for the page background
because they find white painful. (There
Hello,
Christophe Strobbe wrote on 2011-11-14 11:11:
I would like to add a few more accessibility considerations:
* If phpBB is chosen for the forum, please take a look at
http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=17254:
An accessible style for PhpBB.
(You can also get in touch with
On 08/11/2011 Cor Nouws wrote:
For some time, I could personally live quite well with a forum that is
clearly, visibly, independent serving LibreOffice and other suites.
Since suggestions made in that direction seem to be more political than
technical feasible, I can leave that illusion.
Does
Hi Andrea,
Andrea Pescetti wrote (11-11-11 10:38)
On 08/11/2011 Cor Nouws wrote:
For some time, I could personally live quite well with a forum that is
clearly, visibly, independent serving LibreOffice and other suites.
Since suggestions made in that direction seem to be more political than
Le 11/11/2011 11:06, Cor Nouws a écrit :
Hi Andrea,
[...]
Someone else explained that a good technical solution, also with a
different look, is no real option. You must have noticed that post.
Really ?
Please have a look at :
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewforum.php?id=13
and
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 11:24 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Le 11/11/2011 11:06, Cor Nouws a écrit :
Hi Andrea,
[...]
Someone else explained that a good technical solution, also with a
different look, is no real option. You must have noticed that post.
Really ?
Please have a look
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 08:10 -0500, drew wrote:
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 11:24 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Le 11/11/2011 11:06, Cor Nouws a écrit :
Hi Andrea,
[...]
Someone else explained that a good technical solution, also with a
different look, is no real option. You must
After reading this, a quick reply...
What end users are asking is the end user support for the product they
use - LIBREOFFICE -, thats the main reason of friendly web forums.
For the few - TDF is not APACHE as well LIBREOFFICE is not a clone of
OPENOFFICE. They are NOT THE SAME and SHOULD
Hello Drew,
Le Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:46:09 -0500,
drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit :
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 09:31 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
snip
Page is up, feel free to add to it:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/UsersForum
Hi Charles,
Thanks for starting that
Hi *,
Cor Nouws wrote (29-10-11 00:16)
Now I wonder: what about the future of forums for LibreOffice?
It looks convenient to have all at one place. On the other side:
LibreOffice will grow to be different more and more. Different code
base, more functions.
So apart from that it is maybe not
Hi,
of course, there is no need to hurry, but why not start (in case we want to go
for it) now, so we have enough time to evaluate and decide? Better than doing
things in a rush later on. :-) The topic itself is not new, it has in fact been
up already since nearly the beginning of TDF.
Hi Florian,
Florian Effenberger wrote (08-11-11 15:33)
of course, there is no need to hurry, but why not start (in case we
want to go for it) now, so we have enough time to evaluate and
decide?
Yes, not doing things in a rush is good.
What I was referring to: if there is less need to hurry,
Florian,
I'll open a wiki page tomorrow with some requirements listed so that we
come up with some criteria for a forum platform. Others are free to fill
the page as well.
Best,
Charles.
Le 8 nov. 2011 22:58, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org
a écrit :
Hi,
Cor Nouws wrote on
Cor Nouws wrote:
Andrea Pescetti wrote (05-11-11 13:02)
when it comes to user support the people
involved are much more pragmatic
That would be my expectation too. And then 'people involved', I would
read as those with questions, answers and with moderation tasks.
Yes, that was my
Andrea Pescetti wrote (06-11-11 11:18)
And branding can be
adapted too, and possibly made dependent on the URL.
Ah, that is interesting (I only have knowledge of office suites you know
;-) )
But technology is
really easy in this case: the main issue, as I wrote, is political.
Isn't
On 11/7/11, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote:
...
Isn't politics about branding, and the other way round too?!
...
I'm not sure the legal team(s) will bless any attempt to even give the
impression of a common forum. There have been mutterings not just
about brand value but also intellectual
: [PRIVATE] RE: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?
I don't want to take this response to either ooo-dev or tdf-discuss.
I think your compromise is an interesting one, but I don't think it is
feasible. There are political issues and technical issues.
The technical issue is having a different URL
On 31/10/2011 Florian Effenberger wrote:
What I would like to have is one
official LibO forum, either done by us or someone else, that is open
for all languages, and run by a group that does not have members who
openly show hostility towards TDF. I am not saying that everyone does
so, but at
Hi,
Stefan Weigel wrote on 2011-11-02 11:13:
Ok. The forum will sure have a search function, just like every
forum has, right? Could our new forum combine automatically three
searches at once?
(1) Show the matches inside our forum
(2) Show the matches within the ML archives
(3) Show Google
Hi Jonathan,
Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2011-11-01 13:32:
The other day you had asked me for my url to the forums, and I have not
heard back from you in regards to what you think. I was looking at the
administrative control panel of phpbb and I would be able to install
other language packs.
On 10/31/11 8:49 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
thanks everyone for your feedback and your kind offers to help, that's
really much appreciated!
As for which type to use, I must say that a normal forum is the only
way, IMHO. We've been experimenting with Nabble, and the result has
Hi,
Am 30.10.2011 23:14, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton:
NOTE: There is no German Language Forum at OpenOffice.org.
You are talking about the forums formerly hosted by Sun/Oracle, right?
There have always been pure community-driven forums at
http://openoffice.info/
This site points to Englisch,
Marc-André Laverdière wrote:
I think that most people on the mailing list know about stack exchange, and
how rockin' it is. I think it would bee a) cool and b) a boon to our mutual
users to just migrate our forums to stack exchange.
Seems someone else already had that idea:
Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
Well, it turns out many people seem to want to use forums, and most of
them are not technical, they are end users so I don't expect they have
the same needs as developers. I just assume there's no fundamental truth
in either mailing list or forums usage...
No idea.
On 31 Oct 2011, at 11:33, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
what *I* think is that Joe Random User typically wields his search
engine of choice, and clicks on whatever appears promising on the
first result page - and *then* maybe gets sucked into whatever
forum/list/stackexchange platform is behind
On 10/31/2011 07:26 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
Marc-André Laverdière wrote:
I think that most people on the mailing list know about stack exchange, and
how rockin' it is. I think it would bee a) cool and b) a boon to our mutual
users to just migrate our forums to stack exchange.
Seems
On 10/31/2011 03:49 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
[...]
What I took from this thread is, that there are two options: One
de.openoffice.org, and the other one the LibreOffice forum.
Anyone already got in touch with those folks? IIRC, there had been
discussions, with some groups, and
@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?
On 10/31/2011 03:49 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
[...]
What I took from this thread is, that there are two options: One
de.openoffice.org, and the other one the LibreOffice forum.
Anyone already got in touch with those
I am not too inclined towards our own whatever for user support because a)
that's not cool to split the community b) we'll get flak on LWN et al and
c) we loose gazillion pages of answered problems that may be useful for the
next guy.
Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE
Perseverance must finish its work so
On 30/10/2011 01:27, Marc-André Laverdière wrote:
I know that I am skipping a lot of the back-and-forth here, but let me point
out the elephant in the room...
Why forums in the first place?
I think that most people on the mailing list know about stack exchange, and
how rockin' it is. I think
Who in their right mind want forums?
If you want exchange of ideas, mailing lists are great. If you want a
solution to your problem, Forums just stink. Stack overflow was designed to
overcome the limitations of old school forums. Why go back?
Actually, we should think about how to port the old
Well, it turns out many people seem to want to use forums, and most of
them are not technical, they are end users so I don't expect they have
the same needs as developers. I just assume there's no fundamental truth
in either mailing list or forums usage...
Best,
Charles.
Le 30/10/2011 13:42,
Seeing is believing sometimes...
On 30 Oct 2011 08:50, Charles-H. Schulz
charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote:
Well, it turns out many people seem to want to use forums, and most of
them are not technical, they are end users so I don't expect they have
the same needs as developers. I
, 2011 07:11
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?
hehe, yes, sometimes. Although believing is a matter of opinion, while
Faith does (usually) not require eyes . It should be also said that I am
myself a very rare forum user, but, just like the fact that I'm
for the
independent German language Forum. I'm confident it would create a top 4.
- Dennis
-Original Message-
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org]
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 15:14
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: RE: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?
I have
Hi,
Le 29/10/2011 00:16, Cor Nouws a écrit :
Hi,
I noticed that the old users forums from OOo are not available any more.
I was not a frequent visitor, but helped a bit with questions (on the
Dutch language version) now and then. There was a mixture of questions
related to OOo and of
On 29/10/2011 08:23, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Hi,
Le 29/10/2011 00:16, Cor Nouws a écrit :
Hi,
I noticed that the old users forums from OOo are not available any more.
I was not a frequent visitor, but helped a bit with questions (on the
Dutch language version) now and then. There was a
Hi Andrea,
Andrea Pescetti wrote (29-10-11 01:11)
I believe that in general fragmenting support is not a good idea, unless
it is really needed.
Me too - though there are some nuances.
I write about this in some other mails.
Regards,
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- Cor
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I know that I am skipping a lot of the back-and-forth here, but let me point
out the elephant in the room...
Why forums in the first place?
I think that most people on the mailing list know about stack exchange, and
how rockin' it is. I think it would bee a) cool and b) a boon to our mutual
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