[Qgis-developer] forum.qgis.org

[Anita Graser]

Some forum users are already cross-posting on gis.stackexchange. Maybe that
would be a solution.

Regards,
Anita


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:25 PM, MORREALE Jean Roc
<jr.morreale at enoreth.net>wrote:

> In the french-speaking community there is two big forums where users come
> to get support for qgis, they are better referenced than our forum on google
> so it is often their first stop. I'm sure that there must be an equivalent
> place for english speakers, if so it would better to redirect non-ML people
> to these forums rather than keeping our own with a lower reply rate.
>
> Le 27/06/2011 21:16, Carson J Q Farmer a écrit :
>
>  I think we have to be careful here, there are a lot of users out
>> there who don't use mailing lists as a general rule. Mailing lists
>> tend to be a bit more of a 'commitment' than forums, and I think we'd
>> be alienating a lot of users if we drop the forums completely... Is
>> there anyway to set it up so that forum questions are routed to the
>> mailing list, while still appearing to be within the forums for those
>> that prefer this? A new forum structure would probably be fine/nice,
>> but mailing lists tend to be quite 'developer-centric'... I prefer
>> mailing lists myself... But many of my students are 'afraid' or weary
>> of them...
>>
>> On the other hand, the mailing list format works well for the R
>> project...
>>
>> Just some thoughts to throw around before we completely abandon the
>> forums... And possibly some users...
>>
>> Carson
>>
>> -- Carson J. Q. Farmer ISSP Doctoral Fellow National Centre for
>> Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth
>> www.carsonfarmer.com
>>
>> On 27 Jun 2011, at 05:36 p.m., Anita Graser<anitagraser at gmx.at>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  +1 from your forum mod ;)
>>>
>>> Anything that reduces complexity in our web infrastructure is a
>>> plus. The forums attract a lot of spam (= work cleaning up) and I
>>> feel like there's a much bigger audience following the mailing list
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> Best wishes, Anita
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Pirmin
>>> Kalberer<pi_ml at sourcepole.com>  wrote: Hi all, Some time ago it was
>>> mentioned that forum.qgis.org should be replaced. Why not simply
>>> redirect to
>>> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/qgis-user-f2036571.html ?
>>> Regards Pirmin
>>>
>>>
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