This is quite interesting Ed. Let's shape this ahead, do we have some specific karma rewards based permission or we have generic roles.
I would like to work on structuring the content and frequently asked questions. This could be a great place for community to discuss technical question and conduct experiment also. Since this could be in the reach of direct users we could really use this platform as a fundamental central knowledge repository. I like the idea of search functionality, could you share me access as a developer could be I can start with general configuration. I already have technical expertise in managing discourse. Thanks On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 12:03 Terence Monteiro, <tere...@sanjosesolutions.in> wrote: > Scott, > > An upgrade was needed and it should be working now. > > -Terence. > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 7:21 AM Scott Dunbar <sc...@xigole.com.invalid> > wrote: > >> I'm unable to access the discourse site due to some CORS issues. Is >> there work still being done? >> >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:28 AM Ed Cable <edca...@mifos.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've alluded to this in a couple posts but wanted to formally announce >>> and soft-launch the new forum tool hosted by Mifos for both the Mifos and >>> Fineract communities. You can check it out and begin posting at >>> https://discourse.mifos.org. http://forum.mifos.org should redirect to >>> there as well. Just click sign up to get going! Yo >>> >>> Discourse blends the best of both worlds of forums and mailing lists >>> along with added tools for gamification and badging. This forum will >>> provide a robust and user-friendly medium of collaboration that will nicely >>> complement and augment the Fineract developer mailing list and Gitter >>> chatrooms we already have. It will allow us to consolidate over time some >>> of other collaboration channels like the Mifos mailing lists and >>> MifosConnect Q&A platform. It will also enable new forms of collaboration >>> by providing an effective medium for free-form discussion across the >>> community beyond just developing or using the software, i.e. industry >>> trends, etc as well as power our jobs and services marketplace to help >>> connect users with paid support offerings. >>> >>> *How to Join * >>> We are in the process of migrating user accounts from Google Groups but >>> right now the best means to start using the forum is to click Sign Up from >>> the top link - you can create an account using your existing Facebook, >>> Google, or Github logins. After creating an account, feel free to edit your >>> profile too so others can know more about yourself. >>> >>> *Share Your Feedback* >>> This is a soft launch - we're working on user migration, migration of >>> old posts/content, continuing to refine categories and topics, badges - we >>> welcome any and all feedback and bugs or usability issues to fix. Old >>> content still needs to be cataloged as well. Feedback on the Forum itself >>> can be added in the Meta Category. If interested in acting as a moderator, >>> please let me know and I'll add you. >>> >>> Read on below for some of the benefits of the tool. We'll put all this >>> in a blog post with a few more details (namely around notifications/emails, >>> etc.) to help you get the most out of the tool. >>> >>> Thanks to Kerlyn who led the setup and configuration of Discourse along >>> with migration of content from our Google Groups as part of her Outreachy >>> internship. >>> >>> *Improved User Experience Over Mailing Lists* >>> >>> - Highly Searchable and Indexable - posts are both very discoverable >>> via the forum itself but also positioned well in Google searches (which >>> is >>> a downside of the Apache mailing list archives) >>> - Ease of Posting - WYSIWYG editor >>> - Mailing List Functionality - You have a range of options to be >>> notified- for each topic you create you will automatically get >>> notifications, you can also watch topics to get notified, and get >>> notified >>> when someone tags you in the topic (@username). To modify the settings >>> for >>> a topic, click the box below and select "Watching, Tracking, Normal, or >>> Muted". You can also get notifications at category and subcategory >>> levels. >>> To enable these notifications via email, you must navigate to your >>> personal >>> settings --> email and turn on mailing list mode. You'll then receive an >>> email per post and can reply via email or create new topics via email. >>> - Better Navigation - topics are organized by category and >>> sub-category along with tags. >>> - Better moderation of topics >>> >>> *Augments other Communication Channels* >>> Discourse will nicely augment the fineract mailing list and the Mifos >>> Gitter chatrooms - there's been a lot of interest in a community-wide slack >>> channel and we a more robust asynchronous communication channel is better >>> than a real-time chat tool. >>> >>> - Reduce noise and chatter that's on the public mailing list >>> - Provide a more interactive and widespread channel for >>> communication than the mailing list but not as open-ended as Slack or >>> Gitter. >>> >>> *Consolidation* >>> >>> - With the Fineract Dev list as the main community mailing list, the >>> intent of the Mifos Discourse forum is to phase out our Mifos developer >>> and >>> user mailing lists by providing a forum-like tool that you can reply to >>> via >>> email. With it's Q&A features and ability to mark posts as solved, we're >>> going to use the Support Section to replace our Q&A Platform, Mifos >>> Connect. >>> >>> *Improved Collaboration* >>> Discourse' feature set and library of plug-ins will help to improve >>> collaboration >>> >>> - Working Groups - categories and/or groups can be used for our >>> specific working groups like DFS, Scalability & Performance, etc. >>> - Improved community identity - Profiles and in the future badges >>> can help community members better self-identify and discover others. >>> - Jobs & Services Marketplace - the forum like-capability and >>> centrality of Discourse will allow us to reinvigorate our previous >>> attempt >>> at a jobs marketplace which never took off on mobile.io. >>> - Polls and other features - a wide variety of other tools like >>> polls, events etc can be explored to help the community. >>> >>> Discourse is used by a lot of our peer projects like ODK and OpenMRS so >>> we can share in the many lessons learned and best practices they've >>> attained. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Ed >>> >> >> >> -- >> Scott Dunbar >> Cell: 303 667 6343 >> >
