On 06/06/2013 07:58 AM, Kristian Ølgaard wrote:
On 6 June 2013 00:28, Anders Logg <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 11:45:58PM +0200, Johan Hake wrote:
    > On 06/05/2013 08:25 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
    > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 09:28:23AM -0500, Jed Brown wrote:
    > >> Nico Schlömer <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
    > >>
    > >>> I recall that google groups was somewhat painful to use for
    non-googlers.
    > >>
    > >> Google groups is just a mailing list.  You can subscribe
    without a
    > >> google account (send email to
    [email protected]
    <mailto:group-name%[email protected]>),
    > >> but it's not documented and they still try to use a gmail
    account.
    > >>
    > >>
    
http://kevinlocke.name/bits/2012/09/05/how-to-subscribe-to-google-groups-without-gmail-really/
    > >>
    > >> (I haven't confirmed the behavior described here, but it's not
    > >> surprising to me.)
    > >>
    > >> Anyway, you already have a mailing list.
    > >
    > > Yes, we already have a mailing list. What we need is something
    like
    > > stackexchange for FEniCS.
    >
    > Sure, but potentially google.groups can be more than just a list.
    >
    > I just enabled the questions and answer feature at the dummy group I
    > created. I also added some tags. But the user experience is
    rather dull.
    > Doing stuff in the browser also takes for ever.

    I looked around and one of the top recommended alternatives seems to
    be Question2Answer (http://www.question2answer.org/). I installed it
    and it seems to work:


Recommended by who?
Did you find a list somewhere that you could share.

Kristian


This has a few options: http://www.mkyong.com/featured/top-5-open-source-qa-systems/

For a comparison, I am trying out Shapado on a VPS, but it's a bit of a pain to install. If Q2A works straightforwardly, that's probably a more sensible solution.

PTW

    http://fenicsproject.org/qa/

    Try it out and see if it makes sense.

    --
    Anders
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