Good answer. I'm not in love with IBM-MAIN by any means; I have seen communities fragment and die due to things like this. But it's worth a try as long as folks (on both sides!) are ready to abandon either "side" if that's the way the tea leaves read down the road.
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Christopher Hodgins < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi zMan, > > I've been answering similar points in the CICS-L mailing list, so I'll > link you to the full discussion in the archives below. To briefly > summarise though, the mailing lists are awesome and this isn't an attempt > to fragment the community. It's an attempt to reach out to potentially new > or existing audiences who wish to interact in different ways. The > StackExchange model does have certain advantages over mailing lists for > Q&A interactions. Whereas mailing lists are brilliant for IBM-MAIN styles > of interaction where discussions are long and winding and branch off into > several different discussions along the way. > > The discussion on CICS-L from the archive: > > http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind1405&L=cics-l&P=240757&E=2&B=--=_alternative+0036D96380257CD2_=&T=text/html > > We've had a great response from everyone so far but we still need a little > more help in voting up and adding new questions to the proposed community. > If you can help the community link is below. > > Community proposal: > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/67330/system-z > > Thanks > Chris > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Hodgins > IBM Software Engineer - CICS Transaction Server for z/OS > The CICS blog: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/ChrisHodgins > > > > From: zMan <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 08/05/2014 14:22 > Subject: Re: System z StackExchange proposal > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > 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 < > [email protected]> 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
