[sakai-pmc] Update on Stack Overflow sites

[Steve Swinsburg]

Yep we wouldn't have made it through the second phase, we'd need double the
number of people we had and heaps more questions, as you said.
So yes seems like the main site is the place to go.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
wrote:
>
> Yeah, agree. If anything, it's gotten my Stack Overflow reputation up to a
> level where I can actually do stuff on the site. And there were 60
> questions tagged with Sakai on the main site so far, a few of them pretty
> good ones.
>
> I don't think we'd have gotten through the second phase though, even
> looking at a few other sites I'm backing at the moment and a few tags that
> have thousands of questions in Stack OverFlow's main site.
>
> I'd still encourage people to put and tag questions there though, as it's
> a better long term knowlegebase than anything else we have at the moment.
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Steve Swinsburg <
> steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yep, just noticed they were gone too. Interesting experiment though.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It looks like both of these proposals have had no activity in a month
>>> and have been completely deleted. (Unless they were deleted for another
>>> reason).
>>>
>>> Probably best to stick with the idea of tagging questions or some other
>>> plan.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Changing habits is hard. And I wasn't sure if the "pilot" had already
>>>> been completed or not, or if we should have continued to encourage posters.
>>>>
>>>> But if you think it is time to move towards using the general site with
>>>> the sakai tag, I will certainly support that effort and help with the
>>>> coordination. It would be cool if somehow this could be integrated with an
>>>> effort to improve technical documentation on Confluence (or outside of
>>>> Confluence) but those efforts seem to keep losing energy for some reason.
>>>>
>>>> 2 cents.
>>>>
>>>> Neal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Steve Swinsburg <
>>>> steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Two more months have passed and activity in the sites has stalled.
>>>>>
>>>>> IMHO opinion we might be able to get over the first hurdle, but I
>>>>> highly doubt we will get over the second, which requires vastly more
>>>>> committed people, so I'm tending towards ending this experiment and
>>>>> suggesting we post decent questions and answers to the general site with
>>>>> the sakai tag.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be nice if this was coordinated so that we can spread the
>>>>> reputation love around though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks like about 2-3 new people joined since then. Though what
>>>>>> either project really will need are people active in Stack Exchange who
>>>>>> would actually be active on this site, and not just people who click the
>>>>>> button. That is the bigger phase 2 hurdle when we get to the commitment
>>>>>> phase. Both Apereo and Sakai will probably get out of this first phase soon
>>>>>> without a problem. Someone without reputation across Stack Exchange counts
>>>>>> significantly less on phase 2 than someone who moderately active on some
>>>>>> other Stack Exchange site. To get out of the second phase we need 200 total
>>>>>> people, but 100 of them have to be somewhat active on other Stack Exchange
>>>>>> sites. (200+ rep at least)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was in a conference call today and was saying we could use some
>>>>>> more people and also talking up Stack Exchange. How there are a variety of
>>>>>> topics and you don't have to be a developer to be involved. Anyone also can
>>>>>> participate in topics of Academia, Travel, Russian Languages and Home
>>>>>> Improvement (to name a few), and looking at those other sites will be of
>>>>>> huge help now and if the site does get launched.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some of that was why we wanted people to put questions on Stack
>>>>>> Overflow and tag them with "Sakai". So we could at least build up some rep
>>>>>> there. But even with those Sakai questions I still have more rep on Arqade
>>>>>> (a video game Stack Exchange community) than Stack Overflow. ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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