[Qgis-user] Closure of forum

[Gary Sherman]

On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Nick Hopton wrote:

> Of course it's in the nature of things that we'll never know how many
> newcomers and less-experienced people will look at Stack Exchange or at this
> list, take fright and silently slip away. And slip away from QGIS too. I
> believe that by providing a friendly and informal place of first resort for
> newcomers the forum did an important job.   

Would running our own OSQA (http://www.osqa.net/) be better since it wouldn't be as rigid as StackExchange?

It would:

* allow for better organization of questions/answers
* be more informal and QGIS community friendly
* easier to administer?

-gary

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