Please let's be open and try to see the opportunities! Nothing what happens at stack exchange is taking anything away from answers.launchpad.net. In fact it will be adding to answers.launchpad.net.
There is no attempt to be in competition with anything, in fact, linking back from stack exchange to answers.launchpad.net will bring lots of new people also to the existing forms of communication. In some way, this discussion seems like should we also have forums when we have answers.launchpad.net? Or should we have IRC? Or maybe we do not need another LoCo site, because we have already so many central sites. Also let's see the other side of it. The whole exchange proposal shows us how popular Ubuntu actually is. We have almost 100 committments per day. Lots of other proposals have maybe 20 per week. No other linux distro is proposed. In our world of community activism, you need to go where the community is and not stay where you have been all the time. What we are doing is going to open us up for another segment of our future community, which we might not find if we just leave everything as it is. This does not mean doing less for our existing infrastructure, but using synergies and achieving more. Please come back and try to see the positive and allow people to follow their passion. We are a big enough community to do lots of thing! On 07/16/2010 01:10 AM, Randall Ross wrote: > I would like to see our attention and resources applied to > answers.launchpad.net. It's already a great site and a little > development, UX, and marketing push would make it *amazing*. The key > with Launchpad is that it ties bug reporting, development, and help > together. It unites programmers, users, and advocates. > > Stack Exchange is an interesting idea, but ultimately it's driven by ad > revenue, not community. It's likely to increase the fragmentation of > attention. > > Cheers, > Randall. > Ubuntu Vancouver LoCo > > -- > > Other ways to reach me: > chat : [email protected] > sms : +16047713076 > http://randall.executiv.es/ > On 10-07-15 07:40 PM, Daniel Van‵Stone wrote: > >> Hello to you also, >> >> I see a need to spread Ubuntu but promotion through this medium may make >> searches for solutions even more difficult. >> >> I agree also that focus should be on maintaining current forum, and >> sites already in existance. >> >> Cordially, >> >> >> Daniel Stone >> >> In reply to: Need help getting an Ubuntu Stack Exchange created through >> promotion >> >> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 14:34 +0300, Stas Sușcov wrote: >> >>> În data de Jo, 15-07-2010 la 11:12 +0100, Evan Dandrea a scris: >>> >>>> Hi there! >>>> >>>> We're trying to get the good people at Stack Exchange to create a >>>> community Ubuntu users and developers question and answer site built >>>> on their platform and hosted for free by them (with all the content >>>> being CC licensed). As part of the proposal process we need to get >>>> people to visit the following page and click on the "Commit!" button, >>>> signalling that this is a website they would like to use, should it be >>>> created: >>>> >>>> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu?referrer=qQssWsN94hKB49QQOgt7xA2 >>>> >>>> If you're curious as to what this will look like once accepted, then >>>> there are already a few sites in public beta that you can explore: >>>> http://webapps.stackexchange.com/ >>>> http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ >>>> >>>> Thanks to some really lovely people in the community, we've already >>>> had coverage on Ubuntu Forums >>>> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1529644>, the Design Team >>>> blog<http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/vote-now-for-a-more-supportive-future/>, >>>> and OMG! Ubuntu! >>>> <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/vote-now-for-awesome-new-ubuntu-help.html>. >>>> But as I explain in my blog post >>>> <http://evand.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/nearly-there/>, we need to >>>> reach out further into the community and let the boots-on-the-ground >>>> Ubuntu users know what we're all trying to do, and how they can help >>>> be a part of it by going to the proposal website and clicking on the >>>> "Commit!" button. >>>> >>>> This is where you come in. :) If this project excites you as much as >>>> it does for me, wont you please tell your LoCo teams about it. Feel >>>> free to use your own referral link (Stack Exchange has a spectacularly >>>> fun reward / badges system) that you can generate by signing up and >>>> then clicking on "Share This" on the proposal page. Lets work >>>> together to make this something truly spectacular that brings even >>>> more Ubuntu users into the fold and gives them a means of getting >>>> really high quality responses to their questions and continuous >>>> encouragement to help others. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your time. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Same thing everywhere, looks like people got mad on SE. >>> I'm following wp-hackers, and the SE thread spammed us for a couple of >>> weeks constantly. >>> >>> My advice is, if you want to start a new community around SE, do that, >>> but stop asking people to help you without explaining them all the pros >>> and cons of this action. >>> >>> The main evil thing with SE is that: >>> * It isn't free software >>> * The data belongs to the guys behind SE >>> * It has nothing to do with ubuntu as a community >>> >>> What I would really like to see, is a new initiative to >>> rebuild/organize/simplify existing ubuntu forums, instead of trying to >>> get people on SE. >>> >>> Good luck with it. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
