I'm not overly keen on creating our own Q&A site just yet unless we can start to see problems with gis.stackexchange.com. I like gis.stackexchange.com because
1. It's already well know 2. Has a good range of questions already 3. Access to professionals in other areas (QGIS + PostGIS) 4. Move coverage for QGIS on the Internet. 5. A growing user base Starting our own would mean reinventing the wheel for all of the above, plus dealing with spam, moderating etc. - Nathan On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Anita Graser <anitagra...@gmx.at> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Nick Hopton <nhop...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> To me, OSQA looks as if it could be developed into a good Q&A system for >> newcomers, less-experienced users and the timid in general. The real >> question is whether or not the community would support such a move. I'd >> weigh in of course but it would need others too. As you know, I used to >> do a >> bit of labouring for Anita on the old forum, but I don't know how she'd >> feel >> about the proposed new system. >> >> >> I wouldn't oppose setting up a QGIS Q&A. I think I said so before. > It wouldn't fix the problem of our community being spread over many > places, but at least I'd hope that it would be easier to find answers to > previously asked questions. > On the other hand, I'm uncertain how many users would be too shy to use > stackexchange but fine to use a QGIS Q&A. Judging from my experience on > stackexchange, there are a lot of beginners questions coming in all the > time. > The phrase in FAQ about "welcoming people who use GIS professionally" has > also been changed to remove "professionally". It wasn't meant to be > interpreted in a way to discourage people who are new to GIS. > > Best wishes, > Anita > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >
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