Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

[Seif Lotfy <seif lotfy com>]

While I do agree with some of your concerns, I do understand the need
of such a new communciation platform:
Google has been around and seems like it did not help us communication
with the community.

IMHO need either one or both of:
1) a central location for communication and people helping each other
==> see ubuntuforums
2) a stackexchange like askubuntu which is also very popular.

Those two proved successful building a strong community behind Ubuntu.

So the requirement here would be having some gnome community members
to participate. And I think it is a very nice communication platform
since IRC and mailinglist have failed us.

I for one am a fan of stackexchange. But I think we should support the
idea of the forum for a while to see how it goes. Stackexchange is not
dialog friendly as a forum.

Cheers
Seif



On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM, William Jon McCann
<william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Karen,
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> ...
>>
>> I think newcomer users really expect to get information in the forum
>> format, so I think it could be very useful. I guess we'll see what happens
>> there in the meantime :)
>
>
> But perhaps more will get information from google.
>
> I think it is important to make high quality, trustworthy information
> available to search engines. It isn't clear to me at all that forums
> accomplish this without a *lot* of moderation. Which in itself can come
> across as heavy handed.
>
> Availability of this kind of information starts a virtuous cycle. While
> disseminating lower quality information can easily create an overload that
> makes things hard to correct later.
>
> Have we considered using something like Stack Exchange instead? Anyone have
> experience with it?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
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