On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 12:52 -0800, Tom wrote: <snip> Hi Tom,
Well, your portrayal of the events is not accurate to put it succinctly > Also there is already a forum that was set-up as a temporary measure > http://en.libreofficeforum.org/ > The owner might be very willing to upgrade it to a different system and open > it for more people to be administrators. > > The original plan for it was to just set something up quickly and then TDF > would take it over and make it more professional. No. > Sadly TDF steering > committee totally rejected Actually the SC overall remained mum on the subject and rightfully left it to the general community to duke it out *chuckling* > the idea of forums and apparently the website > group was told to link to old OpenOffice forums bit NOT to any LibreOffice > ones. That is not totally accurate - though the end result is - the website group was not told, it was worked out on the mailing list. [in all candor I would like to see us offer links to all the sites, in some way - but that is a different discussion] > By then the forum already had a few fans and so the poor fella > running it felt honour-bound to keep it open as long as he could cope with > it. So, there is a usable and known address and a rudimentary system that > could be useful for this project. As for your last paragraph - there were conversations that took place privately with the owner and I will not break confidence here - but I seriously doubt Sam feels he got shafted here. Best wishes, //drew -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
