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

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 18:22 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote: 
> 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?
>
> Does phpBB support subcategories (JForum does not) - and would that be
> a solution? 

Yes it does [both themes and structures can be tied to a particular area
(category) on the site, also so lots of freedom here] - and this subject
has been talked about within the folks that setup the u.s.oo.o forums,
if it was being done from scratch today, I think it would of been done
in a way you suggest..

OK - what I need from the System adims here is for you to install some
language packs in the installation (de, it, fr, pt-br should be plenty)
and I'll work on putting some borads in place to use them, along this
line if that works for everyone - as people show up to review, from the
different language groups we can add them in appropriately.





> 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.
> Both just don't sound right, and the only benefit would be to only
> have a single database...
>
> 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...
>
> 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?
>
> Argh - instead of answering questions, the call did bring a much bigger one ;-)
>
> But at least askbot is settled :-)
>
> ciao
> Christian




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