On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 21:27 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote: > Hi Drew, hi all! > > Am Samstag, den 12.11.2011, 13:54 -0500 schrieb drew: > > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:28 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > <snip> > > > It is already rather clear, that there is a real overwhelming support > > > for having our own forums. I counted only one or two -1, everyone else > > > was in favor of hosting forums on our own. > > > > > > So, I am very much in favor of moving forward. I'd like to continue that > > > discussion on the website list, > > > > OK > > [...] > > One thing I'd like to add ... because it fits from the time > point-of-view. This week, I've noticed a new software that is used in a > partner company. It is called "Questions2Answers" (similar to > stackoverflow, I guess) and is currently being developed under an > open-source license. > > Maybe people want to have a look... > http://www.question2answer.org/ > > The demo sandbox... > http://demo.question2answer.org/ > > A working Q&A page ... > http://www.question2answer.org/qa/ > > Can be themed, many translations already exist, ... >
Howdy Christoph Great addition to the list. I believe there are pros and cons to type of platform: - the more 'traditional' BBS style - the tag/rank based platforms, as here and each package within a group - shapedo, stackoverflow, question2answer ... - FUDForum, phpBB, SimpleMachines ... I really think that the different platform type come at delivery features in rather different ways and maybe cater to somewhat different user types (personas) - specifically a difference between people that prefer to browse for information vs assisted search [assisted here meaning use of a search box] and even then there are difference types of browsing interactions - drill down vs jump to, is how I would name two patterns. Following the last difference: -any of the current crop of BBS style packages (shuuld) allow a drill down (hierarchical) based interaction pattern. - while the Q+A systems are grounded in a tag based interaction pattern, which is not to say that there is no hierarchy used in these packages, there is. So, I would suggest that, for just the moment, we try to look at package pros and cons within it's group, as if we where going to setup one of each - pushing back a final decision to one of, which type would be implemented. [Maybe even making two grids on the wiki page - I'll look at doing that if no minds, and or, if no one beats me to it :)] Anyway - just some general thoughts and would look forward to expanding/refining them with you and others. //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
