I also like the look of discourse as a more comprehensive alternative. Galen's plan of proving via stack exchange is great though. I'll be doing my part too. Martin On 23 Sep 2013 15:49, "Galen Charlton" <gmc@esilibrary.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no> wrote:
On 23 September 2013 11:43, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
Could we support a fellow FOSS project like Shapado instead of working for free recruiting people for Stack Exchange, please?
Sure! Just set it up and invite people. We'll see soon enough if any of these are able to attract critical mass.
And that's really the key question, IMO -- whether there is a critical mass of interest. The fate of the libraries StackExchange may be instructive. On the one hand, the potential pool of participants in a Koha SE-like is presumably smaller than the folks generally interested in libraries. On the other hand, the SE model may be a better fit for Koha, since the project is a software project, after all, and lends itself better to building up a base of "best practice" answers.
Either way, we can't know until we try. Even if we end up not using StackExchange itself and use a self-hosted SE-like instead, I think there is a lot of value in going through the StackExchange proposal process to verify that there is sufficient interest.
I'm doing my part to make this experiment useful, and I encourage others to do so as well, even if you have reservations about the particular platform.
Regards,
Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha