[Mageia-webteam] Questions about the forum

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 19:02, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 1. Foreign language forums
> We should also start a line of links to available Mageia forums in
> other languages, be they included in the main forum or external
> communities.

Current reference would be in
http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:forums#status .

> To build our Mageia universe. I think this should be
> started from the very beginning so people can watch how this Mageia
> universe grows whenever a new link is added. We can do this by
> language name or flag, while IMHO language name is better because
> there languages spoken in more than one country (English, French,
> German, etc.).

Language names, definitely. Flags are not meant for that.

> 2. Communities forums
> I am not really happy with these links in "Communities forums". As
> already said, they are leading to Mandriva forums anyway and we should
> first ask those people how they would like it to be:
>  - keep their existing forum for both groups, Mandriva and Mageia
>  - open up their own forum for Mageia (like mandrivausers.org/mageiausers.org)
>  - start a new forum for Mageia inside the main Mageia forum.

Yes, but so far, AFAIK (to be checked twice), MLO expressed their
intent to move as a Mageia community. Blogdrake, not so sure about the
double status.

> a better place for such links to community forums would be the header section

Agree. Plus, it would help to have a generic
http://forums.mageia.org/{locale}/ redirection when relevant so we
have a consistent way to address forums.

The global nav, once defined (contents, architecture and design) would
probably embody this, but if a quicker, immediate solution can be
found, go for it.

> 3. Moderators, announcements
> People have registered their name in the wiki, so IMHO we should
> acknowledge their commitment by asking them to fill vacancies (do we
> have any?) before we announce the forum.

Right. I can ping all of them to notify of the availability of the
English platform, the redirections available for locally managed
forums and to ask for volunteers. But I'll need you Mâat to push the
list of people (moderators, admins) in the wiki page too so everyone
knows who is taking a role and who is coordinating this at the forums
team level (see
http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:forums#forums_team ) :-p

Of course, if someone else wants to take the job...

Cheers,

Romain