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

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Anita, Carson, Jean Roc,

I'm replying from the Nabble qgis-developer forum now...


Anita Graser wrote:
> 
> Some forum users are already cross-posting on gis.stackexchange. Maybe
> that
> would be a solution.
> 

I support using gis.stackexchange instead of phpBB forum as well. It does
not fullfill the ultimate wish to have only one place for user support, but
gis.stackechange at least adds some quality to an old-school forum. I like
especially that you don't have to create another account and can login with
OpenID instead.


Anita Graser wrote:
> 
> 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...
>>>
> 


AFAIK the only difference between Nabble and phpBB forum is, that Nabble
requires you to subscribe to the mailing list as well, before you can post a
message. Subscribing can be done with one button click. But maybe this is
realla too much 'commitment' for a new user.

Regards
Pirmin


>> 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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