Re: stack exchange follow up

[Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com>]

What's the benefit of using a more specific community over just the tag
in stackoverflow? What do other libraries do?

On 08/16/2014 02:10 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> > Hey, I decided to spend a little bit of time and look at stack
> > exchange in order to help support a better development community.  The
> > relevant information is here:
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/help/product-support
> >
> > There is already a gtk+ tag already.  So I'm not sure what else needs
> > to be done.  Questions are getting answered from what I can tell.  So
> > there is a community here already, but perhaps we can make it better
> > and promote it more?
>
> So it looks like you can create a specific community around GTK+.
> Here is the place to start:
>
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/
>
> You get people to sign off on the site, and then get a following.  If
> you gain enough it gets proposed under the 'beta' heading and then
> from there it can become a real site.  I think this is really a great
> process.
>
> I would like to get agreement from everyone (both engagement,
> documentation, and developers) so that I can go forward.  Please read
> the FAQ first:
>
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
>
> Once, we at least get it in staging we will need to get a lot of
> people to sign up on it.  Monitoring is still going to be a challenge,
> but I'll figure that out later.
>
> sri
>
> > sri
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