[Mageia-webteam] Questions about the forum

Tue Mar 22 19:02:24 CET 2011

2011/3/22 Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>:
+> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 17:07, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>> I thought this was going to be communicated to the people who belong
+>> to such groups anyway (founders, translators). There's also a number
+>> of people who registered their names in the wiki page as
+>> helpers/moderators in the community forum. Like "Hey, we are ready to
+>> open the forum, we are needing moderators for the following
+>> sections:..... Pls answer if you want to help us."
+>
+> Right. But we didn't announce the forum yet (lack of time/focus on
+> this so far). Shall we do it before the global announce? (I think so).
+
+1. Foreign language forums
+I guess there will be more requests for foreign language forums like
+the German to be included in the same way as it is with the french
+forum in Mandriva. That's what I asked in last council meeting when
+maat said, it's ok. :)
+
+We should also start a line of links to available Mageia forums in
+other languages, be they included in the main forum or external
+communities. To build our Mageia universe. I think this should be
+started from the very beginning so people can watch how this Mageia
+universe grows whenever a new link is added. We can do this by
+language name or flag, while IMHO language name is better because
+there languages spoken in more than one country (English, French,
+German, etc.).
+
+2. Communities forums
+I am not really happy with these links in "Communities forums". As
+already said, they are leading to Mandriva forums anyway and we should
+first ask those people how they would like it to be:
+ - keep their existing forum for both groups, Mandriva and Mageia
+ - open up their own forum for Mageia (like mandrivausers.org/mageiausers.org)
+ - start a new forum for Mageia inside the main Mageia forum.
+Of course we can place links to existing Mandriva communities
+somewhere, in many cases these communities are the sources where our
+new Mageia community comes from. And they bear a whealth of
+information, documentation and other help which will benefit Mageia
+users for a long time from now.
+
+Then I think these links are misplaced anyway. They are hidden in the
+forum structure but they are not subforums as shown, they are links to
+external forums. IMHO a better place for such links to community
+forums would be the header section (as in Mandriva forum) or wherever,
+but not within the english forum structure. People looking for the
+spanish or german community forums will not scan the english forum
+structure to find such links.
+
+3. Moderators, announcements
+People have registered their name in the wiki, so IMHO we should
+acknowledge their commitment by asking them to fill vacancies (do we
+have any?) before we announce the forum.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+