<div>Great announcement Christopher.</div>
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<div>The website right now is the most voted/commited in stackExchange and I have a very strong feeling that will congragate many users from many communities, all in one place.</div>
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<div>The easy of use of StackOverflow and the quickness that everything gets answered there can be a major tool for all of us, using OpenLayers, MapFish, MapServer, GeoServer, ESRI, Autodesk, and the vast diversity of softwares that we work with.</div>
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<div>George<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:10 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christopher.schmidt@nokia.com">christopher.schmidt@nokia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi,<br><br>A proposal has been made for a GIS-centric StackExchange site:<br> <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-information-systems" target="_blank">http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-information-systems</a><br>
<br>For those of you who are not aware, StackExchange is a website<br>that allows for reputation-based question + answering, and provides<br>users a way to find good answers to many questions.<br><br>Currently, there are users of StackOverflow asking OpenLayers questions<br>
there:<br><br> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/openlayers" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/openlayers</a><br><br>The quality of answers in general on StackOverflow is high:<br>
<br> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559431/how-to-display-data-using-openlayers-with-openstreetmap-in-geodjango" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559431/how-to-display-data-using-openlayers-with-openstreetmap-in-geodjango</a><br>
<br>The reputation-based feedback to users encourages users to<br>create high-quality answers.<br><br>I have participated in other StackExchange sites (3500 rep, woohoo)<br>and enjoyed the process immensely, but the StackOverflow site has<br>
too small of a ratio of OpenLayers questions for me to follow it<br>regularly.<br><br>If you are interested in having another way to ask/answer questions<br>related to OpenLayers, I would recommend committing to the<br>GIS site on the area51 link above. I can personally promise that<br>
I will be participating in the StackExchange site in question if<br>it is set up, and I think that many other users could give and<br>receive help in this format.<br><br>(I'd also probably like to set up some cross-linking between the<br>
mailing list and OpenLayers-tagged questions on a potential GIS<br>SE site, if one gets set up, to encourage cross-platform communication<br>about the topics in question.)<br><br>Best Regards,<br><font color="#888888">--<br>
Christopher Schmidt<br>Nokia<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Users@openlayers.org">Users@openlayers.org</a><br><a href="http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>George R. C. Silva<br><br>Desenvolvimento em GIS<br><a href="http://blog.geoprocessamento.net">http://blog.geoprocessamento.net</a><br>