oooforum.org

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#1

Hi, not an issue with LO but hopefully someone has some feedback.

I am just flicking through the LO4.0 "getting started" guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid?

I tried the address in Windows 7 with the same result.

Cheers

#2

Hi :slight_smile:

The address seems to be working now if you do a google search for OpenOffice forums and click on their links.  Clicking on the link in your email doesn't work though and directly typing the address into the url-bar doesn't work either.

Between 2010 and a few months after Apache were given those sites they kept falling over or going down.  At first people thought it was Oracle taking them down permanently but later it became clear it was just their inability to be reliable.  Under Apache those sites seem to have been fine until now.  Perhaps they are moving to better servers this week and that's causing a temporary blip?

I copy&pasted these links from a google search

http://www.oooforum.org/
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/

http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
All worked fine for me but can you click on them?  Weird isn't it?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Hi Tim,

The oooforum.org site is still operational, but their server is (at
best) unreliable. Sometimes you can connect without any problem and
other times the connection will time out. I have no idea why this is.

BTW Tom, oooforum.org was never under Sun or Oracle's control and was
established independently from the original OpenOffice.org project.
Neither it is not part of AOO or hosted ASF servers.
Think of it like this:
oooforum.org = The independent, unofficial form.
forum.openoffice.org = The official AOO forum, which offers some support
for LO users.

Regards
Dave

#4

I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode.

http://forum.libreoffice.org/

Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable

http://forum.openoffice.org/

As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function.

#5

Andrew ,

when this "site" is gone then its also a terible lost of knowledge and code examples for both communities,

Greetz

Fernand

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Should TDF and Apache both be contributing to keeping it going?  Is anyone here able to explain it to the BoD?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

I very much doubt we'd be involved with keeping a OOo or AOO forum going -
just my thoughts though.

Best,
Joel

#8

I very much doubt we'd be involved with keeping a OOo or AOO forum going -
just my thoughts though.

It would seem to me it would be in everyone's best interest to, if nothing else, clone the site and store the data, even if a new version of the site would have to have up on the page, where people will easily see it, a notice that it's for archival and search purposes only.

I know this past week I was doing research and all the links were timing out to that page - but that it had information I wasn't finding elsewhere (other than the Google cache of the site).

Hal

#9

Help and resources have been offered, but it is currently under sole ownership by someone that may not let anyone else into his playground and will not allow it to move into one not controlled by him. So, unless he has a change of heart, it is doomed to die unless the current owner (Ed) decides to do something with it.

#10

Wouldn't it be possible to write a Perl screen scraper and spider through it? Or would that be a copyright issue?

Hal

#11

The Apache OpenOffice project is supporting <http://forum.openoffice.org/>. The volunteer administrators, moderators and other contributors to the AOO Community Forums have tended to also contribute to oooforum, but it was not affiliated with OpenOffice.org nor is it now affiliated with AOO and the Apache Software Foundation in any manner.

The oooforum did (does?) provide access to a substantial German-language community forum, along with a few other languages not supported on the AOO Community Forums at this time.

It is difficult to preserve a forum, especially if the domain name changes, breaking all of the deep links and perhaps internal cross-references as well. I don't know how the ASF can do much concerning oooforum. That may be a matter of my own ignorance.

- Dennis

#12

I assume that it is not a problem to scrape the forum if you know how to do it.

I dropped Ed a line and he said that he would look at it.... and that he thought that it was having performance problems. Last time I asked him about it, it was being hit constantly by spammers or something that was causing it problems.