Hi, On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, linux_learner wrote:
On 1/29/06, Eberhard Moenkeberg
wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Johannes Kastl wrote:
On 01/29/2006 01:33 AM Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
In my guess, the strongest aspect in Pascal's voice is: we have to "glue" the existing, and not to "organize" something new.
Start opensuse-moderators? As opensuse@opensuse.org hast too much traffic, maybe mods and admins of the forums would like to post there?
Probably a good idea, but the moderators should decide it. So let's try to gather them here first. ;-))
i am a mod from suselinuxsupport and have been discussing this at length with pascal. we agree that we need to intigrate. the question is; what is the best way?
Good to hear this. It shows we are on the road. ;-))
there are many complexities surrounding the issue. from legalities to community. all these need to be ironed out before things can proceed. move to quickly and it will fail. no matter how we proceed, someone's feeling are going to get hurt.
Noone's feeling should get hurt. SUSE is just "collecting" the existing community and not building a concurrent new one. From many official statements I see a good "respect" about what has "grown in the wild" already.
perhaps a way is to have the different forums and projects focus on certain areas. maybe one on documentation, one on development, one on community (chit chat and chill out), one on technical support, and so on.
The user is the one to decide this, and in my guess it would be very hard to guide a new user with his first problem here or there by categories. So the existing forums should not run concurrent, but coexisting with a good communication. If practice would show some day that moderator XX at forum YY is by far the best expert for theme ZZ, all the other moderators could give a hint in their personal forum. That should be sufficient. So it would be a very good effort to get a tight communication between all the existing forum moderators, and I hope this is almost a null-task already now. ;-)) I would like to see Novell/SUSE to invite all the existing forum moderators to a special "forum coordination meeting" during FOSDEM, paying journey and hotel (but not food). ;-)) Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)