<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">+1</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I already have a mapserver filter in place on </span><a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">gis.stackexchange.com</a><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">So should it be gis or all stackexchange sites?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am for gis, as it more relevant to the mapserver community and mapserver is already listed in the ads:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://meta.gis.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1968">http://meta.gis.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1968</a><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Umberto</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:32 PM, thomas bonfort <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.bonfort@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.bonfort@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi MapServer Users and Power-Users,<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Why?<br>
<br>
- 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>
<br>
How?<br>
<br>
- 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>
<br>
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>
<br>
best regards,<br>
Thomas<br>
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