Hi and sorry for top posting here, but I think you will forgive me. I just wanted to copy the text of a message i put to the discussion going on in the Admin section of the OO.o community forum about my request there - why? Because it fits here also - I really an happy about some of the questions here and how they are phrased and as in that message will directly pass on my thoughts to each - but tomorrow sorry
------------------- Good morning from Cumberland, I can't say I didn't expect to see some good questions and well thought opinions, nor that I would get a few PMs and emails - I am a bit surprised by how many of each I've received and truly am surprised, in a good way, by who some of those mails are from. There are many direct questions I need to address on this discussion thread and on mailing lists. that will require some back and forth of posts. I ask your indulgence however for today - there is also a meeting this afternoon on other LibreOffice subjects that will take all my time today, but I will, without fail tomorrow morning. I'll try to respond to some of the direct correspondence late this evening, for some it will be to ask if I can copy the mail to this list and answer/discuss your questions here in public (tomorrow). Thanks very much and I'll be looking forward to tomorrow, Sincerely Drew --------------- On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 13:26 +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi Michael, *, > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Michael Münch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I know there are a lot of discussions already going on in this thread > > but do we already have a consensus about linking to webforums not driven > > by the document foundation? > > It's not a question who runs the forum - in fact there is no forum run > by "The Document Foundation" - and none is planned, as there are other > forums already, and creating yet another one would just cause > fragmentation of the knowledge, etc. There just is no point in > creating more and more forums. > > The problem is with the ads the libreofficeforum.org uses. > > > Apart from minor problems, like if one specific forum has to many/the > > wrong type of ads, what do you want to express with such a link. I would > > say most of the visitors will see it as an "we approve and recommend > > this forum" whatever the exact phrasing of the sentence above the links > > will be. > > Exactly. And "approving" a forum that shows ads is what I personally > have a problem with. (and others share similar feelings) > > > But can you really officially approve a forum that is not running on > > your own infrastructure? > > Yes.. > > > What do you know about the privacy of the > > userdata and if it they are processed accordantly to the different laws > > Well, wherever the forum is hosted, it should have proper privacy statements. > > > (see the SONY/Apple discussions now in the media). What about rude > > behaviour/harassment in personal messages as an other example. The > > hardest consequence you can take if the forum gets out of hand is to > > remove the link and this is a rather weak one. But that this forum was > > linked officially linked from our website will be remembered much > > longer. > > Well if the forum gets out of hands wrt. low quality of answers/no > answers at all or problems with moderators and spamming, the problem > solves itself. And yes, removing the link would be the only option. > But a forum that is treated as a valuable ressource by its users will > not degrade that easily. It's only those forums that don't have a > strong userbase that will rot along. > > > [...] > > If somewhat later there are enough resources to build up an forum on own > > infrastructure > > It's not about the ressources. It's about whether it makes sense or > not. And IMHO it absolutely doesn't make sense to setup an own > user-support forum. > > > with a detailed plan how to connect threads about bugs > > with bugzilla in both directions, how to take input from the forum into > > the mailing lists / teams / committees and how to keep the users up to > > date about the discussions on the mailing lists. > > Duplication of that info/forwarding it to relevant parties is up to > the users frequenting the forums. > > ciao > Christian > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
