Re: [libreoffice-website] No we need separate forum-installations for NL-Groups?

Hi Christian

Em 30-11-2011 15:22, Christian Lohmaier escreveu:
> Hi *,
>
> as it was raised in the BOD call: Do we need separate forums for the
> various NL-Projects like it was/is the case with OOo?
>
> Each language has Writer, Calc, ..... forums, and a couple of general
> ones. Around 10 to 15 forums per language.
>
> This will make the Forum listing quite crowded - and it cannot be
> avoided that some languages will appear at the bottom of the page,
> while english appears on top...
>
> And while I answered that dedicated categories would work just fine,
> thinking about it I'm not so sure anymore. There are just too many
> different forums....
>
> What's your opinion/proposal for a solution?

I think that the NL forums could be separated from the main (English) 
forum, and acessed by its own URL like http://nl-forum.libreoffice.org...

Is it feasible? does it makes sense?

The issue I have is that  an english forum will have near zero 
participation from the non english speaking people (at least from Brazil).

I do recomend we set a pt-BR (*) set of forums for Writer, Calc, ... + 2 
others for announcements/discussion as you indicated.

(*) I am talking to the pt-PT guys to see if we really need 2 separate 
set of forums for portuguese, at least wrt the modules (Calc, writer...)


> Does phpBB support subcategories (JForum does not) - and would that be
> a solution? I.e. having a list of languages as categories, and each
> category having its own set of subcategories, or having a Writer,....
> category, and the languages as subcategory.

Have language as category and modules as sub-category, if the above 
cannot be implemented

> Both just don't sound right, and the only benefit would be to only
> have a single database...

Can we have one DBMS with many (per NL) databases?

> But it would make the "show recent/active posts" useless for a
> majority of the users, as German users don't care about that a new
> article was posted in the English or French forums...

Right.

> So better to create separate forums? Even have a mix of forum
> software? Let NL-project foo use phpBB, and have NL-project bar use
> JForum?

I am not in a position to choose between the two. I am more concerned on 
the moderation workload. For me the lower workload, the best.

But that will be may approach: NL-project forums.

> Argh - instead of answering questions, the call did bring a much bigger one ;-)

I call that "management". :-)

> But at least askbot is settled :-)
right.

Regards

--
Olivier Hallot
Founder, Board of Directors Member - The Document Foundation
LibreOffice translation leader for Brazilian Portuguese
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