While I was in the service, we always had to follow the chain of command.  There was never any chance to just sound off to the person above you and tell them what you thought.  In work we have an open door policy and I can always go and tell my boss what I think...(although on some subjects discretion is wise).

Now you have a chance to sound off to the senior executives in Forum Nokia starting with the big man himself Thomas Libretto the Vice President of Forum Nokia.  Also various directors from all over the world have made their self available and listed contact addresses of others in the organiztion.

This unique opportunity is on trial for one month,  I encourage you to take this time to ask questions and send your comments to people that can help you do your job.

Check them out in the Discussion Boards Interviews and Ask the Experts forum

Ron

I imagine that almost everyone has noticed the new changes in the Forum Nokia community discussion boards.  The most striking change is the removal of descriptions for many forums.  The reason for this is to clarify what is forum in itself and what is a group of forums with sub forums. Removing these generally redundant descriptions will allow us in the future to shrink some icons and make more forums viewable without scrolling down. For those that do like the descriptions we plan to add them back in as context sensitive pop-ups later this year.

I personally felt that the idea of having a forum like Location Based Services have a description of "Use this forum for discussion of Location Based Services" as foolish and almost insulting to our members.

All of the Parent forums with child forums now have a listing of the sub forums until we have context sensitive pop-ups. The forums that are stand alone have no description.

The other step that has happened is many sub-forums have been promoted to a higher level. The most recent was the Widget/Widset forum was promoted up from a sub forum of Web Technologies.  Other notable changes are some of the feedback channels were merged into others and the parent folder was removed.  At no time are messages lost they are simply put into another category. 

 We have other plans to merge forums I think Games will merge into the General category both on Symbian C++ and Mobile Java forums.  They simply do not have enough traffic to keep them separate.

 Please feel free to let me know how you like or dislike these changes and other changes you'd like to see.

 Ron