[sakai-pmc] Stack exchange site

[Neal Caidin]

Maybe we should be pushing harder to move questions more aggressively 
from the sakai-dev list to Stack Trace?

Perhaps we should notify the sakai-dev list about this experiment so we 
can enlist their support?

Thanks,
Neal


> Steve Swinsburg <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
> June 12, 2014 at 6:27 AM
> Hi JF,
>
> At the PMC meeting, a discussion point came up about the quality and 
> accuracy of the technical documentation of Sakai. To sum it up, there 
> is a lot of good info on the mailing list but its almost impossible to 
> find.
>
> We discussed ways of making it easier to discover, one being a 
> confluence plugin, one being in the code and versioned (once we move 
> to git), and one being a stack exchange site. With SE we can create a 
> community, however there are certain criteria that need to be met 
> including the number of contributors, visits, questions, answers, 
> 'level' of the users etc etc. This criteria may be difficult to meet 
> based on the number of active Sakai users.
>
> You can read back through this thread a discussion about making an 
> Apereo community on SE rather than just a Sakai one - united we are 
> stronger and all that. Initially I wasn't in favour of that but now 
> think it might be a goer and have contacted the uPortal, CAS and 
> Bedework sterring groups to see if they want to join in. If they do, 
> then we can maybe go in that direction, if not we may be able to get 
> the Sakai site up. If not, move on to some other strategy.
>
> One thing we agreed on was that we need to increase the visibility of 
> the activity of Sakai - this allows us to do that. Mailing lists are 
> very private, even though they are open to all. Confluence is as well 
> IMO. Having a public website that anyone can read/post on was seen as 
> a positive note for the visibility of Sakai.
>
> We agreed to trial some of these strategies and see where we go. So I 
> setup the site, and checked out the criteria etc so it didnt linger or 
> fall off the radar. With the recent announcements from other major 
> contributing universities and the direction they are taking, we all 
> agreed we needed to act fast and kick it up a gear.
>
> I hope that brings you up to speed.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
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> Jean-Francois Leveque <mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>
> June 12, 2014 at 4:13 AM
> Still hard for me not being able to attend the meeting this year. :(
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> Steve Swinsburg <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
> June 11, 2014 at 4:47 PM
> They may appear to be major roadblocks but it may not end up being too 
> difficult. The 'beer' proposal is already in public beta, has less 
> than 1 question per day, 61 avid users and 156 visits per day
>
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/48905/beer
> http://beer.stackexchange.com/
>
> I've received positive feedback from the uPortal SG, they are going to 
> add it as a discussion item.
>
> We did agree to try this out at the PMC meeting, lets see where it goes.
>
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> markjnorton at earthlink.net <mailto:markjnorton at earthlink.net>
> June 11, 2014 at 3:05 PM
> >  I do like the openness and socialness (is that a word?)
>
> "Social Nature" might be a better way to put it.  :)
>
> Generally, I agree, but SE has put up some major roadblocks to 
> creating a community.  Clearly, they are looking for projects the size 
> of OpenStack, rather than Sakai.
> Perhaps we can ask Neal to look into getting the Atlassian Question 
> plugin and give it a go.  From the adverts on the Atlassian site, it 
> seems very similar (ie, knock off) of SE, including reputation.
>
> - Mark
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Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
neal.caidin at apereo.org
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