Saransh, would be happy to have you help with this. Can you sign up and then let me know your user name?
Ed On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 00:25 Saransh Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > This is quite interesting Ed. > > Let's shape this ahead, do we have some specific karma rewards based > permission or we have generic roles. > > I would like to work on structuring the content and frequently asked > questions. > > This could be a great place for community to discuss technical question > and conduct experiment also. > > Since this could be in the reach of direct users we could really use this > platform as a fundamental central knowledge repository. > > I like the idea of search functionality, could you share me access as a > developer could be I can start with general configuration. I already have > technical expertise in managing discourse. > > Thanks > > > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 12:03 Terence Monteiro, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Scott, >> >> An upgrade was needed and it should be working now. >> >> -Terence. >> >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 7:21 AM Scott Dunbar <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm unable to access the discourse site due to some CORS issues. Is >>> there work still being done? >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:28 AM Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I've alluded to this in a couple posts but wanted to formally announce >>>> and soft-launch the new forum tool hosted by Mifos for both the Mifos and >>>> Fineract communities. You can check it out and begin posting at >>>> https://discourse.mifos.org. http://forum.mifos.org should redirect to >>>> there as well. Just click sign up to get going! Yo >>>> >>>> Discourse blends the best of both worlds of forums and mailing lists >>>> along with added tools for gamification and badging. This forum will >>>> provide a robust and user-friendly medium of collaboration that will nicely >>>> complement and augment the Fineract developer mailing list and Gitter >>>> chatrooms we already have. It will allow us to consolidate over time some >>>> of other collaboration channels like the Mifos mailing lists and >>>> MifosConnect Q&A platform. It will also enable new forms of collaboration >>>> by providing an effective medium for free-form discussion across the >>>> community beyond just developing or using the software, i.e. industry >>>> trends, etc as well as power our jobs and services marketplace to help >>>> connect users with paid support offerings. >>>> >>>> *How to Join * >>>> We are in the process of migrating user accounts from Google Groups but >>>> right now the best means to start using the forum is to click Sign Up from >>>> the top link - you can create an account using your existing Facebook, >>>> Google, or Github logins. After creating an account, feel free to edit your >>>> profile too so others can know more about yourself. >>>> >>>> *Share Your Feedback* >>>> This is a soft launch - we're working on user migration, migration of >>>> old posts/content, continuing to refine categories and topics, badges - we >>>> welcome any and all feedback and bugs or usability issues to fix. Old >>>> content still needs to be cataloged as well. Feedback on the Forum itself >>>> can be added in the Meta Category. If interested in acting as a moderator, >>>> please let me know and I'll add you. >>>> >>>> Read on below for some of the benefits of the tool. We'll put all this >>>> in a blog post with a few more details (namely around notifications/emails, >>>> etc.) to help you get the most out of the tool. >>>> >>>> Thanks to Kerlyn who led the setup and configuration of Discourse along >>>> with migration of content from our Google Groups as part of her Outreachy >>>> internship. >>>> >>>> *Improved User Experience Over Mailing Lists* >>>> >>>> - Highly Searchable and Indexable - posts are both very >>>> discoverable via the forum itself but also positioned well in Google >>>> searches (which is a downside of the Apache mailing list archives) >>>> - Ease of Posting - WYSIWYG editor >>>> - Mailing List Functionality - You have a range of options to be >>>> notified- for each topic you create you will automatically get >>>> notifications, you can also watch topics to get notified, and get >>>> notified >>>> when someone tags you in the topic (@username). To modify the settings >>>> for >>>> a topic, click the box below and select "Watching, Tracking, Normal, or >>>> Muted". You can also get notifications at category and subcategory >>>> levels. >>>> To enable these notifications via email, you must navigate to your >>>> personal >>>> settings --> email and turn on mailing list mode. You'll then receive an >>>> email per post and can reply via email or create new topics via email. >>>> - Better Navigation - topics are organized by category and >>>> sub-category along with tags. >>>> - Better moderation of topics >>>> >>>> *Augments other Communication Channels* >>>> Discourse will nicely augment the fineract mailing list and the Mifos >>>> Gitter chatrooms - there's been a lot of interest in a community-wide slack >>>> channel and we a more robust asynchronous communication channel is better >>>> than a real-time chat tool. >>>> >>>> - Reduce noise and chatter that's on the public mailing list >>>> - Provide a more interactive and widespread channel for >>>> communication than the mailing list but not as open-ended as Slack or >>>> Gitter. >>>> >>>> *Consolidation* >>>> >>>> - With the Fineract Dev list as the main community mailing list, >>>> the intent of the Mifos Discourse forum is to phase out our Mifos >>>> developer >>>> and user mailing lists by providing a forum-like tool that you can >>>> reply to >>>> via email. With it's Q&A features and ability to mark posts as solved, >>>> we're going to use the Support Section to replace our Q&A Platform, >>>> Mifos >>>> Connect. >>>> >>>> *Improved Collaboration* >>>> Discourse' feature set and library of plug-ins will help to improve >>>> collaboration >>>> >>>> - Working Groups - categories and/or groups can be used for our >>>> specific working groups like DFS, Scalability & Performance, etc. >>>> - Improved community identity - Profiles and in the future badges >>>> can help community members better self-identify and discover others. >>>> - Jobs & Services Marketplace - the forum like-capability and >>>> centrality of Discourse will allow us to reinvigorate our previous >>>> attempt >>>> at a jobs marketplace which never took off on mobile.io. >>>> - Polls and other features - a wide variety of other tools like >>>> polls, events etc can be explored to help the community. >>>> >>>> Discourse is used by a lot of our peer projects like ODK and OpenMRS so >>>> we can share in the many lessons learned and best practices they've >>>> attained. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Ed >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Scott Dunbar >>> Cell: 303 667 6343 >>> >>
