Re: [libreoffice-website] Forum decision - where do we stand? An attempt of a summary...

On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Did the Finnish OOo-Project have a forum previously/does the Finnish
> LibreOffice project plan on using the forum after all?

Finnish OOo project does not have an official forum. On a commercial forum 
site OOo users sort of took over a subforum that was meant for "Other Office 
applications" (probably that referred to Access and Visio, the invasion 
started around 2004 or so, I don't remember exact details anymore) and at some 
point the forum operator just renamed the subforum to "Openoffice" because all 
of the discussion was about OOo.

We would of course like to have a dedicated forum for LibreOffice so that 
people don't have to go to MS Office user forums to get help. It is almost 
certain that our forum would not become massively popular. Current message 
rate on the unofficial Finnish OOo forum seems to be around 30-40 messages per 
month and I would expect that at least initially we would get much less than 
that for the new forum. This was the reason why we preferred to have a 
subforum within a larger forum (and thus phpBB). If the forum seems overall 
too quiet, it will easily discourage people from using it at all. True, this 
is more of a social argument than technical one. But as I wrote, it was not a 
strong preference, you can ignore it if other teams have better arguments.

Harri

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