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BTW, I know this is a bit off topic, but www.highscalability.com had a very good writeup of the StackOverflow.com website architecture a couple weeks ago, in case anyone was curious. http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture > Hey Jim, > > The techie part for me is non-challenging, just some more hardware. > > The parts I see as useful are all points 1-4 you have listed. > > I would suggest that there would be no benefit to having this discussion > forum, fixwiki, fiximate, stackoverflowforfix.com and so on. > > Centralise in one place - remove duplication and proliferation. Lots of > FIX vendors provide web based tools to show FIX specifications - > Transacttools used to have a nice one, I am pretty sure b2bits have one > and so on. > > Maybe one of the commercial vendors that has a microsoft stack would be > willing to host for FPL as a goodwill/community gesture? > > > > > John G > > > > Integrating the stackoverflow.com "stack" would be a bit challenging > > as the FIX website is on the MSFT platform. > > > > I agree that we have found the current discussion forum somewhat > > lacking but it does have an excellent search mechanism. I know that > > not being able to reply from email - whereas most other systems you > > can - is a limitation. > > > > I was wondering what were the other key features from stackoverflow > > that you find valuable that we could consider providing: > > > > 1. Voting 2. View unanswered postings (this would be extremely useful > > for those of us on gtcgov and other committees that are expected to > > answer discussion posts). > > 2. Tagging > > 3. Summary line on number of responses > > 4. A bit more of a "37 Signals" UI > > 5. Potential integration with FIXWiki [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
