Hello World, I got in contact with someone working for the Discourse group. The OpenNMS project and the community qualifies for their free Open Source[1] hosted Discourse service. They are willing to provide us a free discourse instance for example "opennms.discourse.group" or whatever we pick in the domain space "*.discourse.group".
I personally use Discourse in several other Open Source communities, Hugo, Elastic and Grafana just to name a few and they doing a good job to get me informed about new releases and other announcements. I got also pretty quickly help when I don't want to talk with someone in realtime. It works for me pretty well and I think this is the standard what an open source community should have in these days. If you don't have an idea what discourse is, here two examples, you don't ne a login to read: https://community.grafana.com <https://community.grafana.com/> https://discuss.elastic.co Right know we redirect questions to StackOverflow, but the questions people asking related to OpenNMS do not fit into the StackOverflow category and get redacted with the hint to move to other forums in the Exchange network. I don't think it is well accepted, we just have 117 questions tagged as "opennms". In my very personal opinion it would make sense to establish a Mattermost and a Discourse instance as the two default communication channels in our community. Without thinking a lot here a first idea for categories we could use: General: Replacement for the opennms-discuss mailing list Announcements: A place for TWiO, Conferences where OpenNMS or people in the community are present Development: Replacement for the opennms-discuss mailing list Releases: New Releases We should have at least 2 or 3 moderators. So I'll ask you kindly dear reader to think about volunteering as a moderator. Here[3] is what a moderator would need to do. Before I get back to the Discourse guys and let them run this service for us, I want to get some feedback from you if this is worth doing or should we just keep everything as it is cause you are happy? What do you think? P.S. For the "What If" people: If we grow too much we get noticed and need to move to their Standard plan where we would get a 50% non-profit discount [2] We want a custom domain like community.opennms.com <http://community.opennms.com/> and not opennms.discourse.group -> same as 1. Somebody volunteers to host the instance for our community -> we will get the data and be on our own [1] https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/ <https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/> [2] https://payments.discourse.org/pricing <https://payments.discourse.org/pricing> [3] https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116 <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116>
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