[sakai-pmc] Stack exchange site

Neal Caidin neal.caidin at apereo.org
Fri Jun 13 06:00:33 PDT 2014


That sounds pretty good.

I guess the next question is timing. Since Steve is exploring an 
Apereo-level area51, maybe we should wait till that is settled (assuming 
this is decided by the end of June)?


-- Neal


> Matthew Jones <mailto:matthew at longsight.com>
> June 13, 2014 at 8:51 AM
> 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.
>
>
>
> Neal Caidin <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> June 13, 2014 at 8:47 AM
> 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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Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
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