On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:59 +0100, Alexander Werner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > while discussing the possible platforms for an official user forum, the idea > arose[1] to also evaluate a Q&A forum, similar to the well-known > stackoverflow[2]. > I've set up an instance of askbot to allow users to test such a forum and > comment on this idea. You can access it at http://osqa-test.libreoffice.org. > Feel free to register an account (at the moment, local user accounts, > Facebook, twitter and various openid providers are supported) and test the > installation. > Comments, bug reports and improvement suggestions are very welcome, either by > using the "give feedback"[3] link at the bottom of each page or at the > website list or, of course, in askbot itself[3]. > For a explanation how such Q&A platforms work, please see the faq[4] and my > short explanation here: > * Q&A forums don't provide room for general discussions, polls, rants etc. > and are therefore more targeted. > * Users can select correct answers and vote for answers. Selected and most > voted answers are shown first, drastically improving clarity. > * User activities such as answering questions or voting answers leads to > karma. With more karma, the rights of users grow until the user has full > moderation rights. This allows to grow a self sustaining community. > * Answers can be edited collaboratively (so called "community wiki" posts) > > Of course, trying it out is worth a thousand words :) >
Hi, Thanks for the information Alex. I feel that it would be inappropriate to not mention at this early stage that three platforms of this style service have been put forward as possible solutions. Shapdeo: http://libreoffice.shapado.com/ The above site is a hosted instance of the software, the package itself is FOSS and could be hosted within the TDF infrastructure. Questions2Answers: http://www.question2answer.org/ There is not a LibreOffice specific test site, or hosted running site, for this package - so just a link back to the projects home, where you can find links to existing site. The three packages are quite similar, as would be expected, but do have slight differences - also each is developed using different language/toolset which can be a factor in determining which makes sense for our use. Thanks, Drew Jensen -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
