[libreoffice-users] Re: I am downloading LibreOffice to try it out.

Ken (and Robert),

Ken Springer wrote:
> If you think finding Nabble and other help in the Libre Office site is 
> hard, try Mozilla!!  Horrendous!l  Great eye candy, but not particularly 
> functional for finding help.
True indeed. That's why  http://forums.mozillazine.org Mozillazine , a
volunteer effort, sprung up and is thriving with millions of posts and
hundreds of thousands of users. 

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If Libre Office goes to a forum format, I'm outta here.  Forums are 
> resource hungry and slow. 
Big forums require dedicated servers, that is true. For people browsing
there, they are fast and simple to use.

 To me, forums assume the user is to stupid or ignorant to master
newsgroups. 
With respect, Ken, that statement to me indicates an insular mindset. You
may be a "geek" (not intended as an insult) and go back to the early days of
Usenet, but the majority of people on the Internet  are not. It is not very
productive to label them as stupid or ignorant if forums are what they
prefer.  http://ubuntuforums.org/ Ubuntu  and  http://forums.linuxmint.com/
Linux Mint , to give two more examples, have embraced forums and met with an
enthusiastic response.

My recommendation would be for The Document Foundation and LibreOffice to
approach the  http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ OOo volunteer
forum  to discuss collaboration. It is popular, well maintained, the
moderators and volunteers are for the most part helpful and knowledgeable,
and there is no need in my opinion to re-invent the wheel. (Of course, such
steps may already be going on behind the scenes that we don't yet know
about.)

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