Re: [libreoffice-users] forums, The AOO one

Hi :)
Many of the distros have distro-specific forums covering LO along with many
other topics.

Many articles written about LO have a "Comments" section at the bottom
which often gets comment that are a cry for help or claims that LO can't do
this-or-that purely because the person posting has no idea yet, but similar
questions here get quick answers.  Pivot-tables used to be a popular
issue.

Many magazines and places have forums or comments threads suffering from a
similar lack of knowledge about LO/AOO or OpenSource generally and seem to
try to push people back into buying MS Office
http://forums.computeractive.co.uk/showthread.php?t=232925
"Compared to MS Office 2003 or even Works it was complicated" = that's
probably because MS Office was pre-installed on their machine but LO
requires a few double-clicks.
http://forums.pcworld.com/index.php?/topic/147741-alternatve-to-libre-office/

Some languages have a strong enough team that they run forums.  Well at
least 1!
http://www.libreoffice-forum.de/
(at a guess Italy and perhaps Brasil and others run their own too)

There is at least 1 unofficial forum;
http://libreofficeforum.org/
Originally set-up to show the need but the owner had invested too much into
it by the time people started looking at it and it never became official.
Perhaps going to follow a similar path to ubuntuforums.


It's a shame about the Apache forums being over-run with spam!  I didn't
notice much at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
It looked like Hagar & co were more active than spammers.  Is the OOo one a
different link?  Perhaps timing or just that i didn't look in the right
places in my brief skim-read.

Regards from
Tom :)




On 25 April 2014 12:18, Charles-H. Schulz <
charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 25 avril 2014 13:06:20 CEST, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <
> andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:
> > On 04/24/2014 03:05 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > Hi :)
> > > Just popped into the Apache OpenOffice forum
> > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
> > > and noticed their header claims "User community support forum for
> > Apache
> > > OpenOffice, LibreOffice and all the OpenOffice.org"
> >
> > They were very intentional about that. Does LO even have a separate
> > forum?
> >
> > THe OOoForum has been plagued with spammers since the forum itself has
> > not been maintained so spammers can access it at will. It seems that
> > the
> > spammers have hit it hard enough that it is always slow. When I connect
> >
> > I feel that I can be sure that I will see hundreds (or more) new spam
> > messages since my last visit and not much else.
> >
> > I visited one of the forum topics today and the first 4000 posts on
> > that
> > topic were spam. There are so many that it is not feasible to control
> > it
> > without some level of automation. I gave up trying to keep up with the
> > spam and disabling accounts because I just do not have sufficient time.
> > The official AOO Forum, however, is well maintained and usable.
>
>
> Having a forum for LibreOffice is an old project and we had several
> attempts for it. The issue is you need manpower and volunteers to manage
> and maintain them, clean and block spam etc. If we have these volunteers we
> will open a forum. As it stands today we have 4 support options:
> - mailing lists
> - Nabble (mailing lists via a forum interface)
> - Ask LibreOffice (Next generation collaborative support site )
> - external forums (libreofficeforum.org)
>
> So far it may be observed we have pretty much everything covered ;-) .
>
> Best,
>
> Charles.
>
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