[Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum

[Nathan Woodrow]

I'm not overly keen on creating our own Q&A site just yet unless we can
start to see problems with gis.stackexchange.com.  I like
gis.stackexchange.com because

   1. It's already well know
   2. Has a good range of questions already
   3. Access to professionals in other areas (QGIS + PostGIS)
   4. Move coverage for QGIS on the Internet.
   5. A growing user base

Starting our own would mean reinventing the wheel for all of the above,
plus dealing with spam, moderating etc.

- Nathan

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Nick Hopton <nhopton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>   To me, OSQA looks as if it could be developed into a good Q&A system for
>> newcomers, less-experienced users and the timid in general. The real
>> question is whether or not the community would support such a move. I'd
>> weigh in of course but it would need others too. As you know, I used to
>> do a
>> bit of labouring for Anita on the old forum, but I don't know how she'd
>> feel
>> about the proposed new system.
>>
>>
>> I wouldn't oppose setting up a QGIS Q&A. I think I said so before.
> It wouldn't fix the problem of our community being spread over many
> places, but at least I'd hope that it would be easier to find answers to
> previously asked questions.
> On the other hand, I'm uncertain how many users would be too shy to use
> stackexchange but fine to use a QGIS Q&A. Judging from my experience on
> stackexchange, there are a lot of beginners questions coming in all the
> time.
> The phrase in FAQ about "welcoming people who use GIS professionally" has
> also been changed to remove "professionally". It wasn't meant to be
> interpreted in a way to discourage people who are new to GIS.
>
> Best wishes,
> Anita
>
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