[sakai-pmc] Stack exchange site

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Yeah, we should wait for the results of that exploration before we spend
time on the sakai only one.
-AZ



On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> 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 <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 <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 <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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> --
> Neal Caidin
> Sakai Community Coordinator
> Apereo Foundation
> neal.caidin at apereo.org
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