On 04/17/2011 05:27 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > 2011/4/18 Fabián Rodríguez <[email protected]>: >> On 04/17/2011 10:21 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> The new hotness for a support website would be to have a StackExchange >>> website for LibreOffice. >>> For example, >>> * http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ - aiming at developers, >>> advanced users >>> * http://askubuntu.com/ - aiming at users, also advanced users >>> >>> Here is a list of all StackExchange support websites, all 48 of them, >>> http://stackexchange.com/sites >>> >>> What is StackExchange? Read at >>> http://stackexchange.com/about >>> >>> In a nutshell, these are type of support websites that highlight the >>> questions, and provide many opportunities >>> to get these questions answered, with quality answers. The users >>> accumulate points for their participation, >>> which they then can use up to bring attention to their own questions >>> that they may have. >>> In addition, as users accumulate points, they get more >>> responsibilities in self-moderating the website. >>> >>> The most well-known of those websites is StackOverflow, >>> http://stackoverflow.com/ >>> with about a million members, and more than a million questions answered. >>> >>> I am not affiliated with StackExchange, just posting this to see >>> whether there is interest. >>> >>> Simos >>> >> I posted about doing this on shapado.com a few months ago, take a look: >> http://libreoffice.shapado.com/ >> >> The mailing list archives will also tell you more. >> >> I think it would be unfortunate to use a non-free SaaS to do this, >> specially when Shapado can do more. >> >> I haven't been able to put much more time on this lately, but surely >> making it an official resource would help it gain traction. >> > Thanks for the link. I had no idea about shapado.com > (or http://gitorious.org/shapado ) > > There has been a similar discussion for AskUbuntu and UbuntuAsk, > http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/302/why-should-i-use-this-site-instead-of-ubuntu-ask-shapado > with insightful comments. Such discussion is about the Ubuntu-specific community, a very different context. Canonical simply decided not to support Shapado, and pushed hard for Ask Ubuntu at StackExchange. You can guess which got noticed more (and, well, was "adopted"). I was referring to previous thread in this list about Shapado, which I couldn't find in a quick search. Ironically, as a result of such efforts to get Shapado noticed, Debian started using it.
> To be able to get Libreoffice.Shapado (or one at StackExchange) become > popular, > you need to make a group that will devote time to answer questions for > the first few weeks. 117 people are registered and receive any questions: http://libreoffice.shapado.com/users The problem is not the lack of contributors, but rather the lack of questions / exposure - although I'll admit LibreOffice doesn't seem like a source of extraordinarily challenging questions. > And at the same time promote as much as possible. The positive issue > with StackExchange is that you get the spillover from the other > StackExchange websites. > In any case, it's a hard task to motivate people to spend their time. > > Thanks, > Simos Right, I'll gladly take any offer for help on this one :) Cheers, Fabian -- LibreOffice questions ? Des questions sur LibreOffice ? Preguntas acerca de LibreOffice ? Ask LibreOffice: http://libreoffice.shapado.com/ ~ Fabián Rodríguez http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:MagicFab -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
