I also like the look of discourse as a more comprehensive alternative. Galen's plan of proving via stack exchange is great though. I'll be doing my part too.
Martin On 23 Sep 2013 15:49, "Galen Charlton" <g...@esilibrary.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Magnus Enger <mag...@enger.priv.no> > wrote: > > > On 23 September 2013 11:43, MJ Ray <m...@phonecoop.coop> wrote: > > > Could we support a fellow FOSS project like Shapado instead of working > > > for free recruiting people for Stack Exchange, please? > > > > Sure! Just set it up and invite people. We'll see soon enough if any > > of these are able to attract critical mass. > > > And that's really the key question, IMO -- whether there is a critical mass > of interest. The fate of the libraries StackExchange may be instructive. > On the one hand, the potential pool of participants in a Koha SE-like is > presumably smaller than the folks generally interested in libraries. On > the other hand, the SE model may be a better fit for Koha, since the > project is a software project, after all, and lends itself better to > building up a base of "best practice" answers. > > Either way, we can't know until we try. Even if we end up not using > StackExchange itself and use a self-hosted SE-like instead, I think there > is a lot of value in going through the StackExchange proposal process to > verify that there is sufficient interest. > > I'm doing my part to make this experiment useful, and I encourage others to > do so as well, even if you have reservations about the particular platform. > > Regards, > > Galen > -- > Galen Charlton > Manager of Implementation > Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts > email: g...@esilibrary.com > direct: +1 770-709-5581 > cell: +1 404-984-4366 > skype: gmcharlt > web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ > Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & > http://evergreen-ils.org > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
