Hello to you also, I see a need to spread Ubuntu but promotion through this medium may make searches for solutions even more difficult.
I agree also that focus should be on maintaining current forum, and sites already in existance. Cordially, Daniel Stone In reply to: Need help getting an Ubuntu Stack Exchange created through promotion On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 14:34 +0300, Stas Sușcov wrote: > În data de Jo, 15-07-2010 la 11:12 +0100, Evan Dandrea a scris: > > Hi there! > > > > We're trying to get the good people at Stack Exchange to create a > > community Ubuntu users and developers question and answer site built > > on their platform and hosted for free by them (with all the content > > being CC licensed). As part of the proposal process we need to get > > people to visit the following page and click on the "Commit!" button, > > signalling that this is a website they would like to use, should it be > > created: > > > > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu?referrer=qQssWsN94hKB49QQOgt7xA2 > > > > If you're curious as to what this will look like once accepted, then > > there are already a few sites in public beta that you can explore: > > http://webapps.stackexchange.com/ > > http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ > > > > Thanks to some really lovely people in the community, we've already > > had coverage on Ubuntu Forums > > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1529644>, the Design Team > > blog > > <http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/vote-now-for-a-more-supportive-future/>, > > and OMG! Ubuntu! > > <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/vote-now-for-awesome-new-ubuntu-help.html>. > > But as I explain in my blog post > > <http://evand.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/nearly-there/>, we need to > > reach out further into the community and let the boots-on-the-ground > > Ubuntu users know what we're all trying to do, and how they can help > > be a part of it by going to the proposal website and clicking on the > > "Commit!" button. > > > > This is where you come in. :) If this project excites you as much as > > it does for me, wont you please tell your LoCo teams about it. Feel > > free to use your own referral link (Stack Exchange has a spectacularly > > fun reward / badges system) that you can generate by signing up and > > then clicking on "Share This" on the proposal page. Lets work > > together to make this something truly spectacular that brings even > > more Ubuntu users into the fold and gives them a means of getting > > really high quality responses to their questions and continuous > > encouragement to help others. > > > > Thanks for your time. > > > > > Same thing everywhere, looks like people got mad on SE. > I'm following wp-hackers, and the SE thread spammed us for a couple of > weeks constantly. > > My advice is, if you want to start a new community around SE, do that, > but stop asking people to help you without explaining them all the pros > and cons of this action. > > The main evil thing with SE is that: > * It isn't free software > * The data belongs to the guys behind SE > * It has nothing to do with ubuntu as a community > > What I would really like to see, is a new initiative to > rebuild/organize/simplify existing ubuntu forums, instead of trying to > get people on SE. > > Good luck with it. > > > >
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