Hi Matthieu, Sounds good to me. The process to get it setup seems rather involved but given the supposed number of people out there , we should have little problem gathering enough supoort.
Regards, Jason On Oct 10, 2014 6:59 AM, "Matthieu Pinard (UiO)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > after discussing with web Lars and with the enlightenment of Mark we came > up with the following consensus after going back to the initial needs to be > addressed in this thread: > > *How to make it easier for the users, developers and implementers to look > for an answer for a given question?* > > For that matter *Stackexchange* seems to be a very good option. > Paraphrasing Ubuntu we can say that Stackexchange should become the site > for DHIS2 users, implementers and developers can collaboratively edit > question and answer them. > "Instead of posting a mailing list, this site would work by you repeatedly > editing your question with what you’ve learned about your problem, and then > users can rate the quality of the questions and answers by voting" (Source: > http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/finding-help/support/). > > *Discourse* serves another purpose, which will be very useful for the > DHIS2 Community as well: a place where to discuss about the latest news of > DHIS2, discuss ideas etc. We will put that in place later on. > > So in a step-by-step approach, let's start with *Stackexchange* to serve > the most urgent need. Once the community has adopted it we can continue > providing new tools, namely *Discourse*, for our community to grow and > engage (and vice versa). > > So let's back Jason's initiative and *start posting* on > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/77757/dhis2/ > > *NEXT STEP:* Diffuse this initiative to the info mailing list explaining > the goals and steps to make this initiative a success. > If you agree, Jason, web Lars and me could be assigned to this task. > > *Question: Do you agree?* > > Cheers, > Matthieu > > PS: Interesting link that we will proudly imitate: > http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/finding-help/support/ > > Matthieu Pinard > DHIS 2 Academy & Community Coordinator | University of Oslo > > On 10 October 2014 12:25, Halvdan Grelland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Discourse seems to strike a great balance between power and user >> friendliness. +1 >> >> 2014-10-10 11:20 GMT+02:00 Lars Kristian Roland <[email protected]>: >> >>> Here's another one I like: >>> >>> http://www.invisionpower.com/features/ >>> >>> (not that I don't like the ones Matthieu mentioned) >>> >>> Lars >>> >>> 2014-10-10 11:07 GMT+02:00 Matthieu Pinard (UiO) <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> I'm glad to read that people with technical know-how are on this topic >>>> as well :). >>>> Forums being a fundamental building block of our (web) community >>>> choosing the right tool is key: >>>> >>>> The right tool for me means a tool that: >>>> - is easy to use for non-techies, as the community grows fast behind >>>> it's early adopters >>>> - encourages interaction though a good UX >>>> - helps the community to highlight what are the current hottest topics >>>> - enables "easy" moderation >>>> - can be used on different screens >>>> - ...and well... are open source ;) >>>> >>>> So far I see two tools: >>>> - the Ubuntu Discourse http://www.discourse.org/ >>>> - as we are using the CMS Drupal for our website, we can simply >>>> activate the forum (limited) or better probably go the the Harmony >>>> Core <https://www.drupal.org/project/harmony_core> that is part of the >>>> Commons >>>> distribution <https://www.drupal.org/project/commons> >>>> >>>> So far from a user perspective I favor Discourse >>>> <http://www.discourse.org/>. BTW Ubuntu is using it. I can only >>>> encourage you to give it a try <http://try.discourse.org/> and tell me. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Matthieu >>>> >>>> >>>> Matthieu Pinard >>>> DHIS 2 Academy & Community Coordinator | University of Oslo >>>> >>>> On 9 October 2014 22:39, Lars Helge Øverland <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Does anyone know about any other existing forums that could be >>>>> potentially more suitable? >>>>> >>>>> If not I'm all for giving this a try. I think going for a forum that >>>>> is well-known has more legs than starting our own. >>>>> >>>>> Lars >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Lars Kristian Roland >>> Research Fellow, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo >>> Email: [email protected] - [email protected] >>> Phone: +47 90733036 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> >
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