I'm not *opposed* to the idea, but you might want to suggest why this is somehow better than IBM-MAIN (plus archives). One view says "This would fragment the community", which would NOT be a good thing.
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Christopher Hodgins < chris.hodg...@uk.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > A few of my IBM colleagues and myself are attempting to create a new > community for System z on StackExchange, covering everything System z > related. If you haven't seen StackExchange before, it is an excellent and > easy to find place to ask questions, share answers or even just vote on > questions you would like to see answered. This isn't an attempt to replace > or displace existing communities but to encourage even more knowledge on > System z to be shared and discussed. > > To request a new community you first create a proposal community and > encourage StackExchange users to submit and/or up-vote questions. This is > to prove that the community would be viable, sustainable and useful. If > you would like to help us support this new community, we would very much > appreciate it if you could create a StackExchange account, up-vote the > existing questions and propose some new questions. > > Community proposal: > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/67330/system-z > > Many thanks > Chris > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Hodgins > IBM Software Engineer - CICS Transaction Server for z/OS > The CICS blog: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/ChrisHodgins > Unless stated otherwise above: > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > 741598. > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
