Re: [tdf-discuss] [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

Hi Drew,
On 10/01/2011 19:41, drew wrote:
[...]
> Slightly off topic but it is part of this issue: As to the question of a
> single monolithic view of the project, all things LibreOffice will be at
> one domain, this is a basic assumption that I an not willing to adhere
> to.
>
> There is great value in a networked view, I am not advocating a lack of
> concern for the trademark, that will be from time to time necessary and
> is part of our responsibilities, but I am most vigorously arguing
> against a view that all things should flow into a single point, rather
> that we build an organization that flows outwards, we support the
> efforts and initiatives of others that make use of this Free Open Source
> application we build.
I think there is a different view also coming from the native language 
groups because I think of the lack of 'marketing the community' we have 
met in the past.
The forum is a great support and resource for users, but we also have to 
think on how to get new members contributing to the project.
From our experience in the FR community,  but I think it's also true 
for other languages, the forum didn't help us here. I'm not accusing 
anybody, be sure it's absolutely not my idea, I just point that we need 
to think about it and find solutions. We should be able to have more 
contributors also coming from the forum.
I don't know how, because I can't participate to forum, but I think it 
participates to the idea of splitting the resources Stefan was talking 
about.  And it is may be more visible in language communities because we 
need resources for QA/Doc/L10n, etc, where it is done by the overall 
community en English language.
Again, this is not to open flames against the forum, it is just to state 
an issue we have met for some times now and open a reflexion on the way 
to solve it in our project.

Kind regards
Sophie


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