Hi :) Many of the distros have distro-specific forums covering LO along with many other topics.
Many articles written about LO have a "Comments" section at the bottom which often gets comment that are a cry for help or claims that LO can't do this-or-that purely because the person posting has no idea yet, but similar questions here get quick answers. Pivot-tables used to be a popular issue. Many magazines and places have forums or comments threads suffering from a similar lack of knowledge about LO/AOO or OpenSource generally and seem to try to push people back into buying MS Office http://forums.computeractive.co.uk/showthread.php?t=232925 "Compared to MS Office 2003 or even Works it was complicated" = that's probably because MS Office was pre-installed on their machine but LO requires a few double-clicks. http://forums.pcworld.com/index.php?/topic/147741-alternatve-to-libre-office/ Some languages have a strong enough team that they run forums. Well at least 1! http://www.libreoffice-forum.de/ (at a guess Italy and perhaps Brasil and others run their own too) There is at least 1 unofficial forum; http://libreofficeforum.org/ Originally set-up to show the need but the owner had invested too much into it by the time people started looking at it and it never became official. Perhaps going to follow a similar path to ubuntuforums. It's a shame about the Apache forums being over-run with spam! I didn't notice much at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ It looked like Hagar & co were more active than spammers. Is the OOo one a different link? Perhaps timing or just that i didn't look in the right places in my brief skim-read. Regards from Tom :) On 25 April 2014 12:18, Charles-H. Schulz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > On 25 avril 2014 13:06:20 CEST, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >On 04/24/2014 03:05 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) > >> Just popped into the Apache OpenOffice forum > >> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ > >> and noticed their header claims "User community support forum for > >Apache > >> OpenOffice, LibreOffice and all the OpenOffice.org" > > > >They were very intentional about that. Does LO even have a separate > >forum? > > > >THe OOoForum has been plagued with spammers since the forum itself has > >not been maintained so spammers can access it at will. It seems that > >the > >spammers have hit it hard enough that it is always slow. When I connect > > > >I feel that I can be sure that I will see hundreds (or more) new spam > >messages since my last visit and not much else. > > > >I visited one of the forum topics today and the first 4000 posts on > >that > >topic were spam. There are so many that it is not feasible to control > >it > >without some level of automation. I gave up trying to keep up with the > >spam and disabling accounts because I just do not have sufficient time. > >The official AOO Forum, however, is well maintained and usable. > > > Having a forum for LibreOffice is an old project and we had several > attempts for it. The issue is you need manpower and volunteers to manage > and maintain them, clean and block spam etc. If we have these volunteers we > will open a forum. As it stands today we have 4 support options: > - mailing lists > - Nabble (mailing lists via a forum interface) > - Ask LibreOffice (Next generation collaborative support site ) > - external forums (libreofficeforum.org) > > So far it may be observed we have pretty much everything covered ;-) . > > Best, > > Charles. > > > > >-- > >Andrew Pitonyak > >My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > >Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe 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 > > -- > Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté. > > -- > To unsubscribe 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 > -- To unsubscribe 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
