Hmm, elves /allies /associates /boosters /cooperators... There are not that many appropriate English synonyms for collaborators!  I'm okay with any of them.

 

By the way, the sense that Jan's thinking about is usually the second definition on the sources I checked, with the one we want as the primary definition.

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I'm not really sure why a Private forum . . . 

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Tom, I see two important reasons:

1) Pierre giving a more day-to-day kind of status, and asking the volunteer group's opinions. This should be a huge incentive to keep both Pierre and the group motivated.

I suppose, as the most devoted users, we are the ones either thinking or stating "when's the next release?" "I wonder what Pierre's working on?" "I wonder what marvelous templates Armando is contemplating next", "Do we have any chance of  1.0 this year",.

(Also, I guess it's a kind of "reward" for rolling up our collective sleeves!). 

2) The group's "Preplanning" kind of things-- discussing ideas with this group, before asking the general forum populace.ertain things with the people willing to roll up their sleeves. But I foresee moving any discussion out to the main forum pretty quickly. Basically, it is ilke a planning committee meeting before the regular meeting--it can save from wasting a lot of time in the main meeting.

I really like the idea of bouncing something off the main users, before throwing it out to everyone.

 

By the way,  I plan to post the first  version of the chm help file sometime today in the private forum, for quick feedback, then via this private forum, asking Pierre how he would like to handle it (assuming it works!) either through a regular forum post, or possibly putting it a near-term release.