KDE-Forum.org

I'm so glad to see the KDE community hard at work promoting KDE. While I don't have any specific requests, all the listed ideas sound excellent. I would like to see all the web sites related to KDE adopt a common appearance. A uniform look would be more attractive and might lend a stronger aire of credibility to the whole project. As always, all the improvements are steps in the right direction, and I'll be a KDE loyalist to the end!

Keep up the great work!

(BTW, the new Apps web site is a LOT better than the now defunct KDE.com site.)

Hi,
first of all I have to say that I don't know anything of those PHP based boards although I'm very familiar with PHP itself.
So I don't know anything about the new features of phpBB 2.2.

All those topics sound very good for me but you have to consider, that there are thousand other community pages/boards with exactly the same information. I don't see any advantages in copying one information over thousand different boards. Everybody knows about dot.kde.org, so why reimplement it here.
On the other hand I think it is a good idea to group all relevant KDE topics together on one (this) site. But you the community has to decide, if the idea of grouping all the information is good or not. I can only speak for me and would say: Do it!
And last, you have to take care about the maintainance of those new features so you need some more admins, don't you?
Tom

I think the most important thing, strangely, is to go ahead with your proposed redesign, and make the forum look like it is a part of the KDE web sites network. Of course you will want to check with the KDE web masters about making it clear that it is independent if they want that...

Beyond that...

I suppose the niche kde-forum fills is a place for KDE users to support each other outside of their distribution's support places, to discuss and share ideas about KDE, and to get the people who won't be using bugs.kde.org and other services a lot. So maybe make the portal a portal to the non-developer aspects of KDE by adding links to guides on bugs.kde.org, non-developer mailing lists and other areas where people can become part of the KDE community without being intimidated by the main KDE web sites.

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Original von Anonymous

I think that the stucture will be so each part of koffice (kugar,kexi,kword etc) has their own sektion.

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i dont think this will be very easy to manage or maintain, as i dont see that there is enough demand for each Koffice section to have its own sub forum.

Check out http://www.kde.nl/doc/ that's our dutch KDE website.

I'm particulary interested in Howto/Tutorial section. I think Wiki is a bit of a mess. Look at the KDE-Wiki website for example. That Howto/Tutorial section should invite others to write and to review your work. So I should feel I can and maybe even should contribute to the repository of KDE tutorials on www.kde-forum.org.

Anyway .. I plan to translate those docs if desired if somebody is willing to proffread them as well.

Ciao

Fab

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Original von zenok

I dont want to "copy" dot.kde.org - I want to make kde-forum.org more the gate to the KDE world:
When you look at the v2 Portal you will see all new news of KDE (dot, looks, apps)!

Please don't forget the KDE Wiki at http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php

I found myself distilling answers (e.g. my own) from kde-forum.org (and the mailinglists) into entries at the Wiki several times already. IMHO that's a very natural partnership: kde-forum for discussion and working towards an answer, and the Wiki for keeping the knowledge and refining it (spellchecking, updates, ...).

BTW: The Wiki has been set up explicitely in a way that it doesn't compete with either the kde-forum or the dot: The only forum there is about the Wiki itself.

I think that's a very good system. Kind of a like an archive of help info.

First. This board presently has WAY too many forums, many of which only get one or two posts per week, sometimes only one or two per month. The 'Debian' forum hasen't been used for nearly three months, Mandrake, Gentoo & Distributions haven't had a post for weeks. The Dutch language forum has only had two topics in a year.
This causes problems for both the browser just looking for information and for the potential user trying to decide which forum to post in. Suppose I am having problems with Konqueror web browsing on Mandrake system...I have too many choices: Mandrake, Internet & Network, or perhaps Admin & Installation. Or maybe my problem is not really distribution specific & has already been addressed by a post on the Slackware board. How would I find it, I wouldn't even think to browse there & 'search' won't find it unless the post subject is quite specific.
So, suggestion #1: You should consolidate the forums into as few as possible, perhaps as few as 'Discussion','Tech Help' and 'Feedback to KDE'.

The 'Feedback' forum would be my second suggestion. There already is a 'Feedback' forum, but it appears to be underutilized, perhaps it is competing with the 'Development' forum which is clearly getting some topics which are more of a 'Tech Help' nature. Perhpas it needs a link of it's own on the KDE homepage. With KDE3.2 just released I would have expected there would be lots of feedback coming in but there almost none.
In any case, this forum should be made more visible (from the KDE home page) and set up as a major means of providing feedback to the KDE development team, with a liason person to see that feedback gets directed to the appropriate person. Actual action items may need to be forwarded on though the bug system. note the one post (by Lucher) on this forum where he says he is so dissatisfied with the bug system he will not it, this forum should be a means of getting feedback from people such as this. For a nOOb or a casual user wishing to bring up a minor bug (which maybe is not a bug) or wish list item, this forum is where he(she) would going to go first via the link on the KDE homepage.
There is some further discussion on this at KDE.dot:http://dot.kde.org/1077164294/

Yea, this forum needs more exposure to the KDE community. Like how KDE-Look is where everyone goes for desktop customizations, this place should be where people go for KDE help.

Ok. We could request that when people post about problems, they describe what distro they're on. Maybe have them tell it in their signature? And if they prefer to use a different language, have them put like [Deutsch] on the thread's title. And we should organize an advertising and PR campaign to increase awareness of kde-forum.org.