[ckan-discuss] Support forum both for CKAN and the DataHub

Thu Mar 1 15:36:43 GMT 2012

> Hi All,
> 
> We've gradually seen an increase in questions about both CKAN and the
> DataHub. While a mailing list is OK as a forum for help I think it has
> some severe limitations. I'm wondering if we should deploy some kind
> of forum of Q&A site to help with this. I'm thinking of something like
> these open-source solutions:
> 
> * OSQA which we use to run http://getthedata.org/
> * Wordpress Question2Answer http://www.question2answer.org/
> 
> There's also a variety of SaaS and non-open solutions. What do people think?

I think it might be nice to have something more Stack Overflow-like
(i.e. a web-based question and answer forum, with some sort of points
system for posting good questions and answers). I don't think Stack
Overflow's software is open, but OSQA looks good.