[Qgis-developer] Re: forum.qgis.org

[Saber Razmjooei]

One comment I came across today on the forum:
"but THANK YOU A LOT.
This forum has made getting into QGIS easier. As soon as i can
contribute with help myself, i will do so"

I am impartial, but we need to think carefully before shutting it down.

Cheers
Saber



On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 09:47 +0200, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
> Marco thinks that the community members who take care of the forum could 
> decide such a change. But it is always possible to send a mail to the PSC list 
> and ask for their view. Since Gary didn't step into the discussion and it's 
> "his" forum, I would suggest that Anita sends a mail to the PSC list.
> The technical tasks would be
> -posting an info message to the forum
> -make the forum read-only
> -Update qgis.org pages to point to gis.stackexchange
> -Optional: Changing the DNS entry for forum.qgis.org
> 
> Regards
> Pirmin
> 
> Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2011, um 12.37:07 schrieb Anita Graser:
> > Is this something that should be decided by the PSC or rather by the
> > community? I guess only Gary can shut the forum down or turn it read-only.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Anita
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Paolo Cavallini 
> <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:
> > > Il 05/07/2011 11:26, Pirmin Kalberer ha scritto:
> > > > I've played a bit with gis.stackexchange and think it's really a good
> > > 
> > > idea to
> > > 
> > > > use it.
> > > > Instead of forum.qgis.org we could use
> > > > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qgis
> > > > as starting point.
> > > 
> > > +1 for me.
> > > 
> > > > IMHO there is no realistic solution with *one* login. Migrating forum
> > > > and
> > > 
> > > wiki
> > > 
> > > > would reduce logins by one or two (depending whether the user has an
> > > 
> > > OpenID
> > > 
> > > > login). According to the docs, Joomla also supports LDAP logins
> > > > (http://docs.joomla.org/LDAP), so OSGEO logins could used there, too.
> > > 
> > > Anything simpler is better.
> > > Thanks.
> > > --
> > > Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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