Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-24 Thread Thomas Renkert
@ Bastien, Jason thank you for your response! I made a proposal to stackexchange.com for a dedicated Org-mode site but they rejected it as a duplicate of stackoverflow. So this option is out. Nevertheless, I still think it would be nice to have something like this for Org-mode only. We could in

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-22 Thread Bastien
Hi Rainer, Rainer M Krug writes: > Absolutely. But what about sending once a week an automated email to > the mailing list with the last not answered questions? I'm not sure about this: in this case, will people answer on the mailing list or on SO? I'd rather have people answer on the ml, a

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Bastien wrote: > Hi all, > > Bastien writes: > > > I updated the FAQ section in http://orgmode.org and advertized > > the http://ask.orgmode.org link. > > I've also added a section to the Org FAQ listing the last five > questions from StackOverflow: > > http://o

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-22 Thread Bastien
Hi all, Bastien writes: > I updated the FAQ section in http://orgmode.org and advertized > the http://ask.orgmode.org link. I've also added a section to the Org FAQ listing the last five questions from StackOverflow: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#sec-1 I think this might be a good w

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-22 Thread Bastien
Hi all, suvayu ali writes: >> Why don't we use the "org-mode" tag on stackoverflow.com: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/org-mode > > This looks like the perfect solution without all the headaches. :) Indeed! Thanks Jason for setting http://ask.orgmode.org up. I updated the FAQ s

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-21 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:15 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jason Dunsmore > wrote: >> Bastien writes: >> >>> Something like ask.orgmode.org with a StackOverflow interface would be >>> very nice. >> >> I think this would be a great way to start a community-driven FAQ. >

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-21 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > Bastien writes: > >> Something like ask.orgmode.org with a StackOverflow interface would be >> very nice. > > I think this would be a great way to start a community-driven FAQ. > > Why don't we use the "org-mode" tag on stackoverflow.com: >

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-21 Thread Jason Dunsmore
Bastien writes: > Something like ask.orgmode.org with a StackOverflow interface would be > very nice. I think this would be a great way to start a community-driven FAQ. Why don't we use the "org-mode" tag on stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/org-mode It's a fully-fea

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-21 Thread Bastien
Hi Thomas, thanks for sharing this idea. Something like ask.orgmode.org with a StackOverflow interface would be very nice. I am copying Jason, http://orgmode.org webmaster, to make sure this would not add too much work for him. I am not afraid of fragmentation of information: as long as this ne

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:02:03 -0700, Rehan Iftikhar > said: RI> Personally I feel that the StackExchange interface is more accessible RI> to newcomers than mailing lists or Worg. Its a great way to ask a RI> questions and get an answer. (and it's worth noting that org-mode questions al

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread Rehan Iftikhar
Personally I feel that the StackExchange interface is more accessible to newcomers than mailing lists or Worg. Its a great way to ask a questions and get an answer. The mailing list is better at having conversations about a topic. Worg is a great resource for hand-curated advice, which will always

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread John Hendy
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Renkert > wrote: >> >> Jambunathan K gmail.com> writes: >> >> > >> > The biggest diasadvantage would be fragmentation of information. >> > >> > All information needs to have authoritative sources

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread A. Ryan Reynolds
I think on the whole that this is a good idea; I do wonder if it might harmfully divide the effort on the documentation rather than provide a complement to the manual and guide, but I think the best way to find out is just to try it and see what people use. If the existing FOSS designed to fill

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread Memnon Anon
Thomas Renkert writes: > I noticed that - as more people with a diverse range of background knowledge > start to use orgmode - the mailing list is getting more and more difficult to > navigate: I do agree that the volume of mails did considerably increase. > a lot of threads are long and windi

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Renkert < tunnelbl...@quantentunnel.de> wrote: > Jambunathan K gmail.com> writes: > > > > > The biggest diasadvantage would be fragmentation of information. > > > > All information needs to have authoritative sources and archives. I > > believe the info man

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread Thomas Renkert
Jambunathan K gmail.com> writes: > > The biggest diasadvantage would be fragmentation of information. > > All information needs to have authoritative sources and archives. I > believe the info manual, GNU mailing list and the Orgmode.org domain (of > which Worg is but a part) are the right pla

Re: [O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread Jambunathan K
> The biggest advantage, IMO, is the aspect of self-organization: The biggest diasadvantage would be fragmentation of information. All information needs to have authoritative sources and archives. I believe the info manual, GNU mailing list and the Orgmode.org domain (of which Worg is but a par

[O] Suggestion: Stackoverflow for Orgmode

2011-07-20 Thread Thomas Renkert
Hello, I have been using Orgmode for the last two years. In fact, I started learning Emacs only to use orgmode (btw: a huge thank you to Carsten and the other contributors!). I noticed that - as more people with a diverse range of background knowledge start to use orgmode - the mailing list is ge