We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something else
ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something?


[1]http://forums.worldofgnome.org/


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:18 AM, James <purplei...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 15:08 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> >
> > The Stack exchange software (used by Stack overflow) is proprietary. I
> > think Ubuntu used to have their instance hosted there.
> >
> > There is AskBot (http://askbot.org/) which is a free software
> > alternative. It seems to be used by Fedora
> > (https://ask.fedoraproject.org/) and we could run that on our servers.
> >
> > Solace (http://opensource.plurk.com/solace/) is another possibility.
> >
> > > We could possibly just point people to
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome-3 or
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome
> >
> > Relying on a third party hosted, non free software tool when there is
> > a viable free software alternative doesn't seem very in line with the
> > GNOME philosophy.
>
> +1, askbot seems nice. Good idea!
>
> James
>
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