But I don't see how the forum can be considered part of openSUSE communication infrastructure - those people are far, far away from the openSUSE project - I don't think we should hide that by pretending the forums are part of the project's Communiciation Infrastructure. Yes, the forums are split. Yes, they are not currently as involved with
Martin Schlander wrote: the development of openSUSE Linux as the mailing lists or the IRC channels. I'm not going to argue with you there. I also don't want us to pretend that the forums are currently part of the project's Communication Infrastructure, because they're not. No one here wants to lie about the situation. However, the objectives of the board of maintainers is as follows: * Centralize communication * Help resolve conflicts * Communicate community interests to Novell * Facilitate communication and decision making processes where needed. This plan is designed to strengthen communication channels between Novell, the project, and the community. If the forums are included in that, you are cutting off an entire section of people who _want_ to be part of that community, whether they currently are or not. They wouldn't be posting on openSUSE related forums if they weren't interested in the openSUSE project or its community. We're already strengthening communication channels. Now is the perfect time to bring the forums back into the official community by including them in the strengthening process. Initiate the process - send an e-mail to the administrators of the forums: ask them if they would like to help bring feedback from their members to the openSUSE community as a whole. I suspect that a good portion of them would be more than happy to strengthen the community's feedback loop. ~~ Andrew D., aka andrewd18 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org