Re: Proposal to Create a Stack Overflow Collective for Our Community

2025-09-20 Thread Adam Monsen
-1 It's a novel & interesting idea, but maybe not a great use of our time. Looking at https://stackoverflow.com/collectives , those topics (e.g. NLP, Mobile, R) strike me as very broad, likely with many millions of potential members. Another reason not to put work into a collective is that pe

Re: Proposal to Create a Stack Overflow Collective for Our Community

2025-09-19 Thread James Dailey
Kapil Building communities requires a lot of work. Stack overflow is a good idea but who will answer all the questions? Thanks, James On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM Kapil Panchal < kapil.panchal.developm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Terence, > > Managing a collective is not an individual effort.

Re: Proposal to Create a Stack Overflow Collective for Our Community

2025-09-19 Thread Kapil Panchal
Hi James, Agreed — starting and nurturing a community takes real effort. The good thing is, we already have a strong base of active contributors, including Kapil Panchal, Adam Saghy, Adam Monsen, steinwinde Felix van Hove, Aleksandar Vidakovic, soticsenge, James Daily, Arnold Gálovics, tomasAscenc

Re: Proposal to Create a Stack Overflow Collective for Our Community

2025-09-19 Thread Terence Monteiro
Kapil, I like the idea and agree with some of the points you gave in support of your proposal, however my concern is how do we ensure that it sustains in the long term. Does anyone have experience managing a collective like this? Regards, Terence Monteiro, Fineract PMC. On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at

Proposal to Create a Stack Overflow Collective for Our Community

2025-09-18 Thread Kapil Panchal
Dear Team, As we all know, many of us encounter recurring technical challenges in our day-to-day work. Often, these issues may have already been solved by others, yet the solutions remain scattered and not easily discoverable. This creates a risk of “reinventing the wheel.” I see this as an excel