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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">+1 I think that gis.se makes sense. It will also boost visibility to the gis crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Umberto Nicoletti<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 04, 2013 7:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> thomas bonfort<br>
<b>Cc:</b> MapServer Dev Mailing List; MapserverList OSGEO<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-users] Adding stackexchange to our support channels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I already have a mapserver filter in place on </span><a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">gis.stackexchange.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So should it be gis or all stackexchange sites?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I am for gis, as it more relevant to the mapserver community and mapserver is already listed in the ads:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://meta.gis.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1968">http://meta.gis.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1968</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Umberto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:32 PM, thomas bonfort <<a href="mailto:thomas.bonfort@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.bonfort@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi MapServer Users and Power-Users,<br>
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As FrankW pointed out during our FOSS4G presentation, I would like to<br>
propose that we add stackexchange as an "official" support channel for<br>
MapServer. You can check and subscribe to mapserver related questions<br>
here: <a href="http://stackexchange.com/filters/90617/mapserver" target="_blank">
http://stackexchange.com/filters/90617/mapserver</a><br>
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Why?<br>
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- Stackexchange questions and answers are very well referenced through<br>
search engines, which would avoid recurring questions from being<br>
brought up on the mailing list<br>
- The answers get up or down-voted by the community, allowing a user<br>
to immediately flesh out relevant information for a given question<br>
- Asking a question on stack-exchange might help new users to seek for<br>
help, instead of having to subscribe and post to a public mailing list<br>
(which can be intimidating)<br>
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How?<br>
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- By referencing stackexchange in our "getting help" documentation section<br>
- Most importantly, by having MapServer power users subscribe and<br>
participate to the stackexchange questions, providing answers or<br>
upvoting correct existing answers.<br>
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Users, is this something that you would find beneficial?<br>
Power-users, would you be willing to participate to another support<br>
channel, knowing that in the long run the aim is to reduce your<br>
workload as the most common questions will answer themselves ?<br>
PSC, should we have some kind of motion to vote and officialise this?<br>
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best regards,<br>
Thomas<br>
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