On 2/23/06, Eberhard Moenkeberg
Build more "awareness" at the other forum moderators about the OpenSUSE Wiki and mailinglists, make them give more pointers to docs and solutions at www.opensuse.org... And vice versa: give more pointers to interesting forum happenings into the OpenSUSE mailinglists, make the forum moderators write Wiki pages from interesting forum happenings...
Some "mailers" should visit the forums in their spare time (I do this with linux-club.de, suseforums.net and forums.suselinuxsupport.de, but usually I can't fully work through the whole "View New Posts" task), some "forumers" should subscribe/visit the mailinglists, and the forum moderators should act as the "wanderers between the two worlds".
As Pascal pointed out: communication is the glue, and the "com" before "munication" is meaning: bi-directional. A task not only for the forum moderators, but also for us "mailers".
I am an admin at Suseforums.net along with Keith. I wanted to respond with my ideas. I am curious as to why there is such a push to have an "official" forum. Why not try out first what Pascal & Eberhard were saying and raise the communication level between the different forums and the mailing list. Try to work with what is already existing instead of adding and diluting things some more. If after a few months things aren't working any in the way the community wants, revisit this discussion and then come up with a plan for or against an "official" forum. These are just my thoughts. -Justin