[ckan-dev] Proposal - direct CKAN questions to stackoverflow.com

Mon Jun 18 11:54:03 UTC 2012

I'm really a massive +1 on *just* using stackoverflow right now -- no need
for stackexchange or a separate site :-)

Rufus

On 18 June 2012 12:16, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:

> > Any thoughts on attempting to start a new CKAN-focused StackExchange
> site  (
> > http://stackexchange.com/sites)?  A proposal can be submitted at
> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/.  It would take some concentrated
> effort
> > by the community to get it from a proposal to a live site but the CKAN
> > community is very active so this might be possible.
>
> They set the bar for this quite high. I think anyone can propose a new
> site, then for it to become a beta site it needs to get 40 hypothetical
> questions with at least 10 more upvotes than downvotes for each
> question, and enough users have to sign a digital petition saying that
> they're committed to the new site (the number of signatures required is
> not defined, afaik). Then to survive the beta phase the site has to be
> used enough or it gets deleted (the required amount of usage is also not
> defined, afaik). To be honest, if we can't get a tag going on stack
> overflow then I don't think we're likely go get a stack exchange site
> past beta, but if someone wants to take this on and give it a try, I
> would be happy to help.
>
> If we want a Q&A site it might be easier (as Rufus suggested a while
> ago) just to host our own, OSQA looks like the most promising software
> for it: http://www.osqa.net/
>
> This would lose the advantage of all the potential interest and exposure
> from being part of something larger such as stackoverflow, and would
> mean we'd have to maintain the software ourselves, but we would have
> control of it.
>
> To be honest, I've gone off stack overflow a little bit, I happened to
> browse it with adblock turned off, and realised that it's covered in big
> banner ads in-between the questions and answers. Also, building a big
> community around many federated, self-hosted instances of something like
> OSQA would be better for the internet than something closed source and
> centralised like SO.
>
> P.S. I did post a couple more CKAN questions to SO and answer them
> myself (which is totally encouraged on SO), but I don't have enough
> points to tag them ckan. Maybe if someone with enough points tags these,
> we can give the SO tag another go:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11066850/how-to-build-ckans-docs/11066852#11066852
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11066711/how-to-use-virtualenvwrapper-for-ckan-development/11066712#11066712
>
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