Hi, On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Keith Kastorff wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 23:20 +0100, Wolfgang Koller wrote:
.) Forums: The never ending story. At the FOSDEM it was announced that there will be an official forum (I hope I can say that here, but as you said it in public at the FOSDEM I assume it is ready to be heard by anyone). Although I'm not too happy with that decision I can somehow understand it, at least it will bring the discussion to a rest (and IMO there wouldn't have been a solution everyone is happy with anyway). The only thing I do not really like is that you told us to host a discussion at our board (suselinuxsupport.de) but then suddenly decided that there will be web-forums - next time maybe tell us straight-forward what is planned :). Anyway that's it from me on topic forums.
So in the end, our input wasn't really wanted. It was mentioned as being needed over and over, but in the aftermath of a decision, it's clear this wasn't sincere. The truth is there was an opportunity to strengthen the community that was lost.
Wait. If there was such a decision, the deciders have to proof their qualification next. We had a wide discussion here, and in no way was the general conclusion to create a new official openSUSE forum now. So if that got stated at FOSDEM, the staters have to proof their competence next. Not in configuring a forum software, but in guiding a forum community. My guess is: if the deciders manage it to be good forum moderators, we will get one more forum with new members (I guess no current forum member will leave his "community" just because there seems to come up something new). If it proofs that the deciders are not able to do the job they just have voted for, we have two consequences: 1. it shows that the current forums have to gain a higher acceptance within the openSUSE project. 2. it shows that the current openSUSE steering was influenced too much by some childs who themselves should search for assistance in real-word orientation in future. Maybe the existing forums can help in this case. ;-)) Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)