Draft article re: Discourse ----
Jeff Atwood creates StackOverflow, now Discourse Jeff Atwood just popped up with Discourse, an open source discussion platform. He and Joel Spolsky are founders of StackOverflow, a tool that is likely to have an answer to almost any programming question. This changed mine and many other programmers' lives because the nature of programming, as "new" territory, is that it can be hard to find help. Before StackOverflow, programmers were basically on our own. I could Google a question and might get lucky, but more often I'd end up with just the Experts Exchange page with answers always just out of reach. (Later, we all learned to scroll to the bottom of the page where the answer was hidden and not blurred!) But, otherwise there was nothing. The founders' popular blogs—Jeff writes Coding Horror and Joel writes (this one)—helped them see and understand the community. StackOverflow quickly became full of all kinds of esoteric programming questions, and now, there's lots of "Google love" for them. Programmers see their results all the time; they are always the first one I click. They are Wikipedia-level amazing. 2-3 short paragraphs about Discourse here to end ----- Original Message ----- From: "Weston Davis" <[email protected]> To: "Erlend Sogge Heggen" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:10:49 AM Subject: Re: [Osdc-list] Planning an article about Discourse forum platform I've played around with Discourse as well, and agree with you that it's an amazing piece of software. I look forward to your post. Somewhat similar to Discourse is Telescope ( Github ) an open source post/discussion board built on top of Meteor (a great open source framework). It's still a bit rough around the edges. A little more of a niche solution for Q&A/KnowledgeBase I've also tinkered with is Cordino (think StackOverflow) I'd like to see more posts on up and coming open source projects/solutions themselves, but I don't know that they necessarily have a category to go under on the website? (ie busines, education, government, health, law, life) alternativeTo and CodeVisually have become my trusted sources for searching, reading, and comparing the latest and greatest web dev tools and resources, but I still think there is a spot to be had for a similar resource dedicated solely to open source projects. I admit I have thought about creating such a resource before. I recognize however this may not fall inline with the mission of the site which seems to have a focus more on applying open source principles to other facets of society. If indeed this does fall out of the realm of opensource.com, I'm still open to ideas about making such a resource a reality. Weston Davis On 8/14/2013 1:11 PM, Erlend Sogge Heggen wrote: Hi, I'd like to write an article about an amazing new piece of forum software called Discourse . I'm just not sure about the format. I haven't used it as an admin yet, only as an active participant on their own forum and few others. It would probably be an opinion piece in the Life section. Sort of like this but going a bit more in depth about it's most unique features. Does that format sound acceptable? _______________________________________________ Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Osdc-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list _______________________________________________ Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Osdc-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list _______________________________________________ Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Osdc-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list
