Chris: Will the current discussions be moved to Stack Overflow? If not, for how much longer can we continue to discuss a topic in the Google Groups API site? Cheers >>>> Robert
On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Chris Broadfoot (Google Employee) wrote: > Greetings Maps API developers, > > Starting today, the Maps API team will shift most of its efforts for > supporting the community’s technical Q&A to Stack Overflow. We will retain > the current Google Groups alias for non-technical discussions and general > announcements that are not suitable for Stack Overflow. > > Why we’re moving to Stack Overflow > Stack Overflow is a valuable platform for technical Q&A, and we’ve noticed a > significant trend over the last year, where more and more Maps API developers > have been turning to stackoverflow.com for answers. > > Stack Overflow provides opportunities to expand the Maps API community, and > we believe it will foster even greater engagement within our community. In > addition, Stack Overflow has many active experts in JavaScript and other > technologies/programming languages relevant to the Maps APIs. Questions > relating to the Maps API often can be answered by general experts, so we’re > excited to be able to expose some of these questions to a wider pool of > experts. > > What’s next? > If you have technical questions about your Maps API implementation, please > begin to ask questions on Stack Overflow. You can use the google-maps tag – > along with a selection of other more specific tags – to ensure that Maps API > experts can find your question. > > If you’re a long-time user and expert with the Maps API, please begin to > monitor tags and build up karma on Stack Overflow – we highly value the > contributions you make to the community, and we want to make sure that your > contributions continue to be recognised by us and the developer community at > large. > > We’re excited about the benefits and opportunities that Stack Overflow will > afford our community and we look forward to providing continuing guidance and > support. > > Cheers > Chris, on behalf of the Maps API team > > -- > G+: http://chrisbroadfoot.id.au/+ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/broady > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
