We used Google Moderator before and it is really nice thing to use. I like the base of the idea, but I have one question what about the questions coming from users through the user(s)@ mailing list ? Would that make them feel isolated in case some of them would not like to use Google Moderator for any reason ?
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com>wrote: > What a great idea. I'm copying this to the ComDev list so others can > consider it. Having said that this one reason this would work for AOO is > that it has such a large non-technical user community., something that's > not really true of other Apache projects. > > If any projects adapt the idea please feed back here. > > Sent from my tablet > On Nov 14, 2012 11:42 PM, "Rob Weir" <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I > > noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated > > questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be > > a lot of good questions out there. They could range from "How do > > I..." to 'Why did you..." to "What if you did...", etc. > > > > So the proposal is to use Google Moderator, like we did before for the > > AOO 4.0 ideas, and use it to gather and rate questions. We call it > > "Ask OpenOffice". > > > > After some period of time (a month?) we take the top-rated 10 (or top > > 5?) questions and respond to them in a blog post. > > > > This could become a regular thing that we repeat every 6 months or so, > > "Ask OpenOffice 2", "Ask OpenOffice 3", etc. > > > > Downside? We could get some awkward questions. But if such a > > question gets into the top 10, then we should give it a serious > > response, right? This is a challenge and an opportunity. > > > > What do you think? > > > > -Rob > > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
