Hello All Users You may know that I, and others, have been working on a new user forum for OO.org users. Well, I wanted to invite the folks here to have a look at our first working prototype - as we lay out forums and sub forums and work out the modifications to the base line package.
I would really be interested in any comments and ideas about how this might be structured. A sandbox server has been setup at http://oooug.paintedfrogceramics.com/forum for this purpose. Please feel free to come take a look, register if you like, and make any suggestions you have there. Good or bad they will all help. Also - there has been no 'formal' announcements on this yet - so .... You guys get to hear it here first. The site is being developed by and will be managed by a group of OO.o users that are forming an independent users group, OpenOffice.org User Community Volunteers ( OUCV ). The Charter for the new group is making the rounds amongst the founders for signatures and when that is done we will open for general membership. SUN Microsystems has donated a dedicated server for our use in their Hamburg Germany facility. Myself and Terry Ellison ( Chief Technology Officer - EDS UK ) will be the initial administrators for the new server and site. Over the last few weeks we have been looking at not only the OOoForum site for what is good and not so good, but also have been lurking around the two German language forums, the French language forum and to a lesser extent the other OO.o targeted portals and forums that we could find. The design of the French language forum in particular will play heavily in how we layout the, not yet built, landing page. With a format geared to making easy access to Tutorials, Templates, Resources ( extensions etc ) and the forums. The decisions made on platforms ( Solaris, PostgreSQL, phpBB 3.0 ) was done with an eye towards fully supporting the smaller NL groups that may be looking for user forums in their own languages. We hope to be able to begin doing that in the near future. A second goal is to offer support to other groups, projects within the OO.org community. For example we will be setting up a public / private forum for the OOoAuthors group. A second use by one of the OO.org projects should be forthcoming shortly. ( I can't say which that is...but do you like to work with jig-saw puzzles?..I do.) I'll have more for you on some other interesting goings on - like shared authentications of user account within the OO.o services domain, later. So - please stop by take a look - remember this is just a prototype for the UI, yes I know..*smile*...the header graphic is too big for one thing. Thanks for you time. Drew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
