On 08/05/2012 05:40, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
On 7 May 2012, at 04:49, Lars Kurth wrote:
There has been a discussion and as part of the new xen.og website
there will be a stackoverflow like Q&A system. An early prototype is
out there already.
Seehttp://new-www.xen.org/index.php/community/xen-questions.html
Is there any reason not to just use ServerFault as the Q&A system,
rather than deploy and maintain an equivalent on new-www.xen.org
<http://new-www.xen.org>? There are already a fair number of
Xen-related questions on there, and they could use more answers.
The reason why I believe we need to do this, is that today Xen has an
issue connecting with its user base. A design goal for the new site is
to create a motivation for Xen users to connect with Xen.org and sign
up. The Q&A system is only one aspect of this. Another one is the vendor
directory. We will do the same for the blog and maybe other resources in
future.
Where we started doing this, for example with the new wiki, we are
seeing new momentum. Most open source projects provide a place where the
community (users and developers) can congregate in one place. This
creates synergies between the developer and user communities (one can't
live without the other). Xen has never really done this, and was always
heavily biased towards developers. As a result users are scattered all
over the place and it appears that we have much less momentum than we
actually have.
As an aisde: new.xen.org will eventually become xen.org
Cheers
Lars
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