[sakai-pmc] Stack exchange site

Aaron Zeckoski azeckoski at unicon.net
Fri Jun 6 08:58:21 PDT 2014


I guess I would refer to exhibit A: which is stackoverflow. I can generally
find things pretty easily on there. It would definitely be more dilute but
maybe that is OK. A cas in sakai question could fit in both areas for
example.
On Jun 6, 2014 11:46 AM, "John A. Lewis - Unicon" <jlewis at unicon.net> wrote:

> Hmmm. That's a great point. I like the idea at face value in that it
> provides value to the broader community (and also could increase the speed
> with which things could get moved along).
>
> Will the tagging system make it easy for people looking to answer Sakai
> questions to only need to read Sakai questions? I worry about the noise
> factor between the different projects, I guess.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a somewhat on topic suggestion on this before we get to far down
>> it. Maybe we should do an apereo site instead of one specific to sakai? It
>> seems like it might be more active and more generally useful. Thoughts?
>> -AZ
>> On Jun 5, 2014 7:21 PM, "Aaron Zeckoski" <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I am pretty sure we can rally the community. I would suggest we get
>>> the PMC members in there and at LEAST 50 questions first and then we
>>> start a dev list email campaign to rally as many people as possible to
>>> start voting on questions and answers (and even adding in their own
>>> stuff). We should easily hit the goals that way.
>>> -AZ
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Yeah, looks semi authentic. You need 40 questions with 10 (up) votes
>>> each.
>>> >
>>> > You also need 60 registered followers (which is probably the bigger
>>> hurdle),
>>> > but because each user can only up vote 5 questions in a topic, seems
>>> like
>>> > you'd need at least 20 non-followers to stop in and give their votes.
>>> Though
>>> > if some people do down vote questions it will take even more. :(
>>> >
>>> > Seems like it's a good forum if it works out though. Some of the
>>> questions
>>> > tagged Sakai already looked pretty good.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm confused. Is the process set up to be authentic? Or is it
>>> acceptable
>>> >> to build our own FAQ?
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm sure we could find 40 real questions (however basic or complex) in
>>> >> person -- and answer them pretty quickly. Isn't that more engaging
>>> anyway?
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >> -Noah
>>> >>
>>> >> On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Charles Severance wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Steve should we propose and then answer our own questions?   Because
>>> most
>>> >> of the questions I know to ask are the ones I know how to answer and
>>> answer
>>> >> pretty regularly.   Or should we have one person put up a question
>>> and a
>>> >> different person answer the question?
>>> >>
>>> >> /Chuck
>>> >>
>>> >> On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Steve Swinsburg <
>>> steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >> From our discussion yesterday I have created a proposal for a Sakai
>>> Stack
>>> >> Exchange site here:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/70749/sakai?referrer=Upkx7_AnBifKdm91tHnKSg2
>>> >>
>>> >> In order to get this up we need to get 40 example questions with a
>>> net of
>>> >> 10 up votes each. Once we get that then we move into the next stage.
>>> >>
>>> >> So this process doesn't take forever, we should start creating
>>> questions
>>> >> and voting them up.
>>> >>
>>> >> Note that you need to have an account on each stack exchange/stack
>>> >> overflow site, so you'll start at 1 again on this site when you
>>> login. Once
>>> >> you confirm your email address you get 50 points to allow you to
>>> create
>>> >> posts.
>>> >>
>>> >> cheers,
>>> >> Steve
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