[sakai-pmc] Stack exchange site

Fri Jun 13 05:51:17 PDT 2014

I think my ideal at the moment (since people can't get answers on area51
would be)

- Someone posts a question on stackoverflow with the sakai tag
- Someone also signs up on
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/70749/sakai and posts the same
question (or more) there

I'm not sure how we'd communicate that to this list. It looks like some
people have been copying over good questions that are posted to this list
and answering them, as we'd need rep from those questions and answers to
get beyond further phases of the site process.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> 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 <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 <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 <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
>  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
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> neal.caidin at apereo.org
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