My own view on this is that the very specialized, almost "splintered" tech topics are really very useful for the experts with deep-domain knowledge. If you're a strictly-networking person, questions about storage and applications holds very little interest for you.
For someone asking questions, though, it will probably be difficult to tell where exactly to ask the question. I know that ServerFault and SuperUser have that issue sometimes, and there's really a lot of bleed over with Stack Exchange, Server Fault and Super User in general. Things do get kicked to the right community in the end, but I wonder how many times that answers the questions to the satisfaction of the person asking. Nevertheless, I've committed to this, as well. At least I'll know where to go ask my OpenFlow questions now ;-) --Matt On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Peter Grace <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to add to this, I can say that internally our community team is > excited to see the commitment put forth on this proposal. It's possibly > the fastest we've seen a proposal go to commitment organically, thanks > mostly to Jeremy Stretch's cheerleading. > > There's a bit of divide among the ServerFault community about whether NE > should exist; many of the SF users feel like network engineering falls > under systems administration and that's why there's a bit of contention on > Area51 about the proposal. It is my understanding that we will not permit > the proposal to be closed this near to beta--all it needs is the > aforementioned high-rep users. > > If any of you happen to have high stackoverflow rep (or rep on any other > stackexchange site), that rep carries over into Area51 -- please commit to > the proposal if you think you'll get any benefit out of the site. I'm > solidly in the camp of "let them have their time to shine" -- I know I > personally have a few network questions that I'd love to put forth to pure > network engineers. > > Pete > MoTS - Stack Exchange > > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Craig Constantine > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Is everyone aware of this? >> >> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/52519/network-engineering >> >> The proposal is in the Commitment stage. It has 368 people signed up as >> committed. The final hurdle is that only 59 of those people have more than >> 200 points on a stack exchange site. The proposal needs 100 committers who >> each have 200+ points on any Stack Exchange site. >> >> If anyone with +200 SE points is interested, the proposal could use your >> commitment. >> >> If you're already committed, but you don't have 200 points somewhere on >> SE, please consider spending some time to rack up some SE points. If you >> pass 200, you'll instantly bump the proposal towards Beta. >> >> --Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
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