Re: [libreoffice-website] Forums Proposal

Hello Christian,

I don't want to shoot the messenger but the BoD's mandate is very clear on
the purpose of the forums: users support. I'm referring to that, regardless
of any potential future extension.

Best,

Charles.
Le 7 oct. 2012 16:50, "Christian Lohmaier" <
lohmaier+ooofuture@googlemail.com> a écrit :

> Hi Charles, *,
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Charles-H. Schulz
> <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> > At the risk of repeating myself, and to support Florian's views: we are
> > talking about a forum for users, not a migration, even a partial one, to
> > forums instead of mailing lists fro contributors.
>
> Well, that's actually not true :-)
>
> Björns initial proposal that was the base for kicking of the
> coordinators stuff explicitly mentioned the possibility of moving
> contributors stuff to the forum, that it would be important not to
> have a users-only forum to begin with.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@global.libreoffice.org/msg05840.html
>
> I explicitly referred to it in
> http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@global.libreoffice.org/msg05887.html
> / http://www.mail-archive.com/website@global.libreoffice.org/msg08461.html
> and as such his thoughts about is important for a successful forum
> launch also made their way into the planning page in the wiki:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Forum-planning
>
> So just because you didn't follow the forum-creation process doesn't
> mean "that was never mentioned!!!!!". On the contrary, that idea was
> part of it from the very start.
>
> > That was never discussed
> > and so far I think we are only at the stage of opening something... Let's
> > not try to eat something bigger than we can chew...
>
> But as Björn's mail, also the one from Marc is only thinking about the
> possibility to move stuff to the forum.
>
> If contributors in that area don't like that, it will all stay as is.
>
> No reason to "shoot the messenger"
>
> ciao
> Christian

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