Its looks great, Kevin! Thank you in advance!
I don't know who makes the decisions about the hosting services and
other webmaster tasks, but I think if the forum proposal would be accept
by the community, the most probable is the forum to be hosted by the
same wiki's hosting. But it's great have your support!
~Paulo
On 29-01-2011 17:23, Kevin Soviero wrote:
ETA: I am the administrator for a shared hosting server in a
collocation center in times square, NY, (we have got plenty of
bandwidth). If you guys actually want to get a forum setup, I can
host it for you.
It will be my contribution to the LibreOffice Design team.
I'll post more about the server soon...
On 01/29/2011 10:15 AM, Paulo José wrote:
Hi everybody!
I know I'm new here and this topic was probably discussed some times,
but I wanna know what you think about it now.
The mail listing format is very objective and clear to use. We just
need to reply an email to take part in a discussion. But when the
discussion grows up, it starts to be impossible don't be disturbed by
noise of other discussions and even understand the thread flow.
The forum format is not too simply. You usually need to sign up and
login for each participation on a discuss. But as advantage you have
more a organized discuss and concise, new features like posting
images and attaches, true links, create polls, correct mistakes in
your messages, and others.
So I looked up on Google about the possibility of migrate a mail
listing to a forum system. Many people talk about the disadvantages
[1] on doing it, and how just few mail listing members do login in a
forum... All their negative points are related to the differences
between forum these two discuss format. Isn't there a way to unify
the advantages of both?
There is! Some forum systems that I found actually have support to
integrate mail listings, and one of them, called FUDforum [2], has
total integration, allowing to the forum archive emails from mail
listings and also send the messages posted in the forum to the mail
listing [3]! No more need to login in the forum. Is this not great?
We could have the both of two worlds!
Along the importing process of FUDforum, is possible automagically
create new users (by their email address) and normalize the text of
emails (per example, remove the "[libreoffice-design]" signature from
the message subtitle). At last, an important thing: FUDforum is
/free/ and /open source/.
I personally like the forum format and believe that our productivity
would be increased in a power by 2 using it in long discussions and
interactive activities, thanks to its advantages. Well, what do you
think about it? Is this a possibility to be discussed now?
Thank you in advance for your time!
~Paulo
[1] "Moving a mailing list to a forum?"
http://www.henriettesherbal.com/blog/moving-mailing-list-forum.html
[2] "What is FUDforum?"
http://cvs.prohost.org/index.php
[3] "FUDforum's Mailing List Manager"
http://cvs.prohost.org/index.php/Mailing_List_Manager
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Re: [libreoffice-design] Migrating from Mail Listing to Forum · Kevin Soviero
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