Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Question&Answer system evaluation

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 12:52 -0800, Tom wrote:
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Hi Tom,

Well, your portrayal of the events is not accurate to put it succinctly 

> Also there is already a forum that was set-up as a temporary measure 
> http://en.libreofficeforum.org/
> The owner might be very willing to upgrade it to a different system and open
> it for more people to be administrators.
>
> The original plan for it was to just set something up quickly and then TDF
> would take it over and make it more professional. 

No.

> Sadly TDF steering
> committee totally rejected 

Actually the SC overall remained mum on the subject and rightfully left
it to the general community to duke it out *chuckling*

> the idea of forums and apparently the website
> group was told to link to old OpenOffice forums bit NOT to any LibreOffice
> ones.

That is not totally accurate - though the end result is - the website
group was not told, it was worked out on the mailing list.

[in all candor I would like to see us offer links to all the sites, in
some way - but that is a different discussion]

>   By then the forum already had a few fans and so the poor fella
> running it felt honour-bound to keep it open as long as he could cope with
> it.  So, there is a usable and known address and a rudimentary system that
> could be useful for this project.  

As for your last paragraph - there were conversations that took place
privately with the owner and I will not break confidence here - but I
seriously doubt Sam feels he got shafted here.

Best wishes,

//drew


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