do you people think it would be useful to have sub-forums for different locales?
taking the idea from ubuntuforums, mainly. I found it useful for ice-breaking and a good way to get an “in” to the commnunity. wider than that, it could also work for setting up local meets, local support groups, or just general axe-murdering meets (whatever people are into).
has this been looked at or discussed before? what do you guys think?
failing that, do you think it might be useful to have a general “say hi” forum?
Local forums already exist in many parts of the world which cater for local needs; the advantage of the openSUSE forums is that they allow people to share information about issues which may be less common and therefore less likely to have been met in a local forum - and of course to focus on strictly openSUSE issues.