Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Nabble: friend or foe?

Hi Florian, *,

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Florian Effenberger
<floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Marc Paré wrote on 2012-08-20 09:33:
>
> > Is there a way to run our own Nabble server? If I remember correctly,
> > the use of Nabble was originally just a temporary thing until we got our
> > own forums up and running.

No, nabble never was meant as a forum, just as interface for the mailinglists.

> > If this is the case, should we be looking instead at a forums (which we
> > have already done and chosen two forums to pick from -- phpBB or
> > jforum). Should we not spend our energy and $$$ on this instead?

Not much $$$ needed for that.

> we have been discussing this, indeed, but I don't remember the exact
> outcome. IMHO, several forums had been tested, and we ended up with, IIRC,
> jBulletin, or somesuch.

It was jforum. But feedback was so sparse during the testing, and
askbot was deployed at the same time, so I did want to give
ask.libreoffice.org a good headstart and not spread stuff too much.

As only a handful people provided feedback, and even less actually
bothered to use the test-installations that were setup, and given that
I personally really like askbot, it dropped in my prioritylist..

To me the question is back down to: Do we have enough volunteers to
manage/run the forum? A forum requires significantly more maintenance
(janitorial stuff, moving threads, dealing with spam, answering
posts,...) than askbot.

ciao
Christian

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