Here's a rather lame pic of the Forum in Rome (I mean it's really rather good, but too literal for the blog): http://www.flickr.com/photos/se_johnson/2464956182/orcmid wrote:FACT CHECKING PLEASEorcmid wrote:I realize it is late in Europe but I can take more suggestions until around 24:00Z. I am going to look for simplifications of the front part and my English so that translation and ESL (English as a Second Language) is facilitated. I am also looking for an image that I can link from some license-free archive. "forum" is a promising notion, of course.
I have been simplifying the sentences and text. I have the following replacement paragraphs that I want reviewed to be accurate enough:
Now I'l go look for one or more images.Stay and contribute
The forums were originated by a group of independent volunteers. The entire content of the Forums is created and curated by individual users and volunteers. With migration, the volunteer structure is supplemented by arrangements for accountability and oversight appropriate for properties in ASF custodianship. Day-to-day operations and volunteer activities are unchanged.
User peer support grows by inviting frequent contributors of questions and answers to serve as volunteers. Volunteers review Forum activity and point out where moderation is required. More-experienced volunteer Moderators intervene where appropriate to provide special assistance or curate threads and subscriptions.
For the role of the volunteers, please consult the wiki article - reviewing forum activity is certainly a task of volunteers, but not their main activity. Suggestion: "Apart from answering questions and discussing forum policy, volunteers review forum activity ...".
I suppose that in "the volunteer structure is supplemented" you should read "forum" for "volunteer", and the same seems to hold for "in volunteer activities are unchanged". The part about moderators is too vague, suggestion: "The general atmosphere in the forums if very friendly, so that its moderators can largely restrict themselves to deleting occasional spam and renaming topics with vague titles, moving topics to more appropriate forum, etc."