[Mageia-webteam] Questions about the forum

Tue Mar 22 19:12:26 CET 2011

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 19:02, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 1. Foreign language forums
+> 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.
+
+Current reference would be in
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:forums#status .
+
+> 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.).
+
+Language names, definitely. Flags are not meant for that.
+
+> 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.
+
+Yes, but so far, AFAIK (to be checked twice), MLO expressed their
+intent to move as a Mageia community. Blogdrake, not so sure about the
+double status.
+
+> a better place for such links to community forums would be the header section
+
+Agree. Plus, it would help to have a generic
+http://forums.mageia.org/{locale}/ redirection when relevant so we
+have a consistent way to address forums.
+
+The global nav, once defined (contents, architecture and design) would
+probably embody this, but if a quicker, immediate solution can be
+found, go for it.
+
+> 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.
+
+Right. I can ping all of them to notify of the availability of the
+English platform, the redirections available for locally managed
+forums and to ask for volunteers. But I'll need you Mâat to push the
+list of people (moderators, admins) in the wiki page too so everyone
+knows who is taking a role and who is coordinating this at the forums
+team level (see
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:forums#forums_team ) :-p
+
+Of course, if someone else wants to take the job...
+
+Cheers,
+
+Romain
+