Interesting topic.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jorge O. Castro <jo...@ubuntu.com> Date: 11 September 2013 03:31 Subject: LoCo teams and discuss.ubuntu.com To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts" < loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com> Hi everyone, Over the past few months we've been playing around with a piece of software called Discourse: http://discourse.org The idea is that discussion on the internet could use a reboot, and as a bonus, it's Free Software. So immediately we set up a prototype and started kicking the tires: - http://ubuntu-discourse.org/ So far we've spent the last few months figuring out deployment issues, capturing best practice in the charms, and the sort of due diligence on what it would take to make this an Ubuntu resource available to all. We had a session at UDS and things are in motion to launch the site as discuss.ubuntu.com. http://ubuntu-discourse.org/t/uds-session-on-discourse/959 So what does this have to do with local teams? As it turns out Discourse needs a few things sorted out, mostly, how can it support nested categories? How can it scale? Well I've had some talks with the upstream project, the Forums Council, and the LoCo council and we feel that LoCo teams would be the perfect place to rock this. Here's what the LoCo section looks like: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/category/local-teams And here's a currently empty example with Vancouver: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/category/ubuntu-vancouver The idea would be to move interested LoCo teams that are NOT using the forums for support to Discourse. We would do this on a volunteer basis to see which teams are interested in driving this feature forward. Here's why I think $your_local_team should check this out. - Nesting all the LoCo teams inside of a LoCo section is currently not implemented in Discourse, the volunteering teams would help drive feature development of this feature with upstream. - Since Discourse is Free Software this isn't just about your discussion forum, there are integration points we can do like integrated discussions on the loco portal, your loco blog, and even your individual member blogs. Think of Discourse as not only a forum but a Free Software replacement for Disqus comments as well allowing you to tie it all together in a hyperlocal location. To me this is a big opportunity, your Discourse category could be used to tie in different parts of your infrastructure together to help form a more cohesive community. - In light of all the discussion about reinvigorating teams; getting our teams on a slick modern discussion platform is a better way to engage with users instead of nerdy mailing lists. :) Gotchas: - Right now Discourse supports a "hybrid" model, of being a web discussion platform first with email integration. This wouldn't replace your existing team mailing list, though I would expect that some point in the future it would be one platform to handle everything. Replacing your team mailing lists isn't a near term goal. Though I suspect if your team is engaging with more non-geek users that they'll dig Discourse. - Migration - There isn't any from vbulletin to Discourse. Your team would have to make decision to freeze your old subforum on ubuntuforums.org and start fresh. - Multi-language support. We could do multiple languages but right now the software itself is deployed in English, and we'd have to deploy subsites for different languages to give native languages in the software itself and so forth. Given the maturity of the site I'd like to punt this to a later goal; I think for now having native languages in the LoCo category itself is fine, and we can work out the details about translating the UI later. - We've obviously not launched the site in production as discuss.ubuntu.com, this is ongoing. We don't really know what this would look like in the software, the idea is to get interested teams signed up, and then get you working with the Discourse folks to kick the tires; we then iterate quickly. So with that, I'm looking for a few gutsy teams who want to help form and drive our future discussion platform .... discuss! -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship - Share your infrastructure, win a prize! -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts -- Have you tried Ubuntu Linux yet? Check out http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/why-use-ubuntu and find out why it is a better option than trying to upgrade your hardware to accommodate a newer version of your current system.
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