[Qgis-user] Re: Donations -> Knowledge mananagment platform

[Julian Bogdani]

+1
for MIGRATING forums to wiki AND using stackexchange for new topics & plugins support.
Forums are great for novice users but useless for more advanced ones and for plugins maintenance, help & support.



-----
Julian Bogdani
jbogdani at gmail.com
http://bradypus.net





On 31 Mar 2012, at 16:16 , Maxim Dubinin wrote:

> -1
> 
> (signed  up  for  qgis-user  to  send  this email, is it really a good
> way  to  decide  ask  whether  we should close one support media at... another
> media)
> 
> I'm surprised it is ignored what actual users of the forum said [0].
> 
> I'm also surprised how quickly the thread 'how to make forum better' turned
> into 'lets  close it because we don't like it/don't want to spend time on it'.
> 
> I thought such decisions should at least go through PSC voting.
> 
> [0] http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9025
> 
> Maxim
> 
>> We could also close the forums and tell everyone to use gis.stackexchange
>> instead. That would reduce maintenance necessary on our side. It would also
>> increase visibility of QGIS in the eyes of ESRI folks if more QGIS
>> questions pop up on stackexchange.
>> 
>> Personally, I would welcome shutting down the forums since it would free
>> me of the repetitive work of deleting dozens of spam threads every day.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Qgis-user mailing list
> Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/attachments/20120331/5875512d/attachment.html>