Re: [libreoffice-website] planned Forum - Coordinator wanted

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier+ooofuture@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lucian, *,
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Lucian Oprea <oprea.luci@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to coordinate this project.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> > What are the next steps?
>
> Well, as you're the coordinator it is up to you :-)
>
> Either find additional coordinators to help out or to start right away
> with gathering the info.
> Get someone to look through the archives and collect all the people
> who did volunteer to help out moderating a forum (or do it yourself,
> but as also written in the wiki: Being coordinator doesn't mean you
> have to do all by yourself. If you can get other people to help with
> specific tasks, it is all the better)
> You can also start right away with trying to define the initial forum
> layout (what categories/initial forums to have, see also the other
> post from a couple of minutes ago). How you do it is up to you/any
> other coordinators.

I'd also suggest to take a look at the rollout of the OOo Forum (
http://user.services.openoffice.org ) - maybe dig up a few of the team
who contributed and were "co-ordinators" there and get their
input/suggestions.

I was involved in that whole OOo Forum schmozzle, and I will say..
it's a LOT of work (and I don't consider myself to be one of main
contributors to that rollout).  It takes a team of people who can
dedicate enough time and energy to get things rolling.  You need to
define things like who is repsonsible for the backend (server), what
forum software you implement etc.  You need people to care for the
database, optimize the server for speed/caching and so on.  Then you
need (especially on launch day/week/month) a dedicated team of
moderators to triage questions, weed out spam, etc.

Bjoern has outlined a lot of the key points. :-)

C.

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