forums, The AOO one

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#1

Hi :slight_smile:
Just popped into the Apache OpenOffice forum
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
and noticed their header claims "User community support forum for Apache
OpenOffice, LibreOffice and all the OpenOffice.org"

I think it's great! :slight_smile: There are quite a few places where people can get
help with LibreOffice now. Oracle tried to kill that sort of co-operation
between OO and LO so it's good to see them seeing us as all part of a wider
community.

Of course there are a few things they might not be aware of over there that
might need to be sent here. I suspect that many of them know more than
some of us anyway, well some of me at least.

I used to keep hearing that their Base forums were fantastic and so few
people were doing anything with Base it was painful that those few were
scattered and discouraged from communicating or from working together.
This helps deal with that sort of fragmentation without jeopardising the
independence of either project imo.

I don't think it helps to worry about them stealing people from our turf
because there are plenty of problems to go around and LibreOffice has
advantages that AOO doesn't.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#2

They were very intentional about that. Does LO even have a separate forum?

THe OOoForum has been plagued with spammers since the forum itself has not been maintained so spammers can access it at will. It seems that the spammers have hit it hard enough that it is always slow. When I connect I feel that I can be sure that I will see hundreds (or more) new spam messages since my last visit and not much else.

I visited one of the forum topics today and the first 4000 posts on that topic were spam. There are so many that it is not feasible to control it without some level of automation. I gave up trying to keep up with the spam and disabling accounts because I just do not have sufficient time.
The official AOO Forum, however, is well maintained and usable.

#3

Hi

Hi :slight_smile:
Just popped into the Apache OpenOffice forum
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
and noticed their header claims "User community support forum for

Apache

OpenOffice, LibreOffice and all the OpenOffice.org"

They were very intentional about that. Does LO even have a separate
forum?

THe OOoForum has been plagued with spammers since the forum itself has
not been maintained so spammers can access it at will. It seems that
the
spammers have hit it hard enough that it is always slow. When I connect

I feel that I can be sure that I will see hundreds (or more) new spam
messages since my last visit and not much else.

I visited one of the forum topics today and the first 4000 posts on
that
topic were spam. There are so many that it is not feasible to control
it
without some level of automation. I gave up trying to keep up with the
spam and disabling accounts because I just do not have sufficient time.
The official AOO Forum, however, is well maintained and usable.

Having a forum for LibreOffice is an old project and we had several attempts for it. The issue is you need manpower and volunteers to manage and maintain them, clean and block spam etc. If we have these volunteers we will open a forum. As it stands today we have 4 support options:
- mailing lists
- Nabble (mailing lists via a forum interface)
- Ask LibreOffice (Next generation collaborative support site )
- external forums (libreofficeforum.org)

So far it may be observed we have pretty much everything covered :wink: .

Best,

Charles.

#4

On 25/04/2014 13:06, Andrew ,

Its a chame, there must be a solution save all this invaluable information, its still te best place to start coding wint LO and OO

Greetz

Fernand

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Many of the distros have distro-specific forums covering LO along with many
other topics.

Many articles written about LO have a "Comments" section at the bottom
which often gets comment that are a cry for help or claims that LO can't do
this-or-that purely because the person posting has no idea yet, but similar
questions here get quick answers. Pivot-tables used to be a popular
issue.

Many magazines and places have forums or comments threads suffering from a
similar lack of knowledge about LO/AOO or OpenSource generally and seem to
try to push people back into buying MS Office
http://forums.computeractive.co.uk/showthread.php?t=232925
"Compared to MS Office 2003 or even Works it was complicated" = that's
probably because MS Office was pre-installed on their machine but LO
requires a few double-clicks.
http://forums.pcworld.com/index.php?/topic/147741-alternatve-to-libre-office/

Some languages have a strong enough team that they run forums. Well at
least 1!
http://www.libreoffice-forum.de/
(at a guess Italy and perhaps Brasil and others run their own too)

There is at least 1 unofficial forum;
http://libreofficeforum.org/
Originally set-up to show the need but the owner had invested too much into
it by the time people started looking at it and it never became official.
Perhaps going to follow a similar path to ubuntuforums.

It's a shame about the Apache forums being over-run with spam! I didn't
notice much at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
It looked like Hagar & co were more active than spammers. Is the OOo one a
different link? Perhaps timing or just that i didn't look in the right
places in my brief skim-read.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Note, it is NOT the official AOO forum that has the spam problem, it is OOoForum.org (just to be clear). The AOO forum (which also supports LO) runs great!

Many magazines and places have forums or comments threads suffering from a similar lack of knowledge about LO/AOO or OpenSource generally and seem to try to push people back into buying MS Office
http://forums.computeractive.co.uk/showthread.php?t=232925
"Compared to MS Office 2003 or even Works it was complicated" = that's probably because MS Office was pre-installed on their machine but LO requires a few double-clicks.
http://forums.pcworld.com/index.php?/topic/147741-alternatve-to-libre-office/

Some languages have a strong enough team that they run forums. Well at least 1!
http://www.libreoffice-forum.de/
(at a guess Italy and perhaps Brasil and others run their own too)

There is at least 1 unofficial forum;
http://libreofficeforum.org/
Originally set-up to show the need but the owner had invested too much into it by the time people started looking at it and it never became official. Perhaps going to follow a similar path to ubuntuforums.

I was unaware of these.

It's a shame about the Apache forums being over-run with spam! I didn't notice much at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
It looked like Hagar & co were more active than spammers. Is the OOo one a different link? Perhaps timing or just that i didn't look in the right places in my brief skim-read.

No, this forum is well maintained. I refer to oooforum.org