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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matthieu,
Sounds good to me. The process to get it setup seems rather involved but
given the supposed number of people out there , we should have little
problem gathering enough supoort.

Regards,
Jason
On Oct 10, 2014 6:59 AM, "Matthieu Pinard (UiO)" <matthiep@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> after discussing with web Lars and with the enlightenment of Mark we came
> up with the following consensus after going back to the initial needs to be
> addressed in this thread:
>
> *How to make it easier for the users, developers and implementers to look
> for an answer for a given question?*
>
> For that matter *Stackexchange* seems to be a very good option.
> Paraphrasing Ubuntu we can say that Stackexchange should become the site
> for DHIS2 users, implementers and developers can collaboratively edit
> question and answer them.
> "Instead of posting a mailing list, this site would work by you repeatedly
> editing your question with what you’ve learned about your problem, and then
> users can rate the quality of the questions and answers by voting" (Source:
> http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/finding-help/support/).
>
> *Discourse* serves another purpose, which will be very useful for the
> DHIS2 Community as well: a place where to discuss about the latest news of
> DHIS2, discuss ideas etc. We will put that in place later on.
>
> So in a step-by-step approach, let's start with *Stackexchange* to serve
> the most urgent need. Once the community has adopted it we can continue
> providing new tools, namely *Discourse*, for our community to grow and
> engage (and vice versa).
>
> So let's back Jason's initiative and *start posting* on
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/77757/dhis2/
>
> *NEXT STEP:* Diffuse this initiative to the info mailing list explaining
> the goals and steps to make this initiative a success.
> If you agree, Jason, web Lars and me could be assigned to this task.
>
> *Question: Do you agree?*
>
> Cheers,
> Matthieu
>
> PS: Interesting link that we will proudly imitate:
> http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/finding-help/support/
>
> Matthieu Pinard
> DHIS 2 Academy & Community Coordinator | University of Oslo
>
> On 10 October 2014 12:25, Halvdan Grelland <halvdanhg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Discourse seems to strike a great balance between power and user
>> friendliness. +1
>>
>> 2014-10-10 11:20 GMT+02:00 Lars Kristian Roland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> Here's another one I like:
>>>
>>> http://www.invisionpower.com/features/
>>>
>>> (not that I don't like the ones Matthieu mentioned)
>>>
>>> Lars
>>>
>>> 2014-10-10 11:07 GMT+02:00 Matthieu Pinard (UiO) <matthiep@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I'm glad to read that people with technical know-how are on this topic
>>>> as well :).
>>>> Forums being a fundamental building block of our (web) community
>>>> choosing the right tool is key:
>>>>
>>>> The right tool for me means a tool that:
>>>> - is easy to use for non-techies, as the community grows fast behind
>>>> it's early adopters
>>>> - encourages interaction though a good UX
>>>> - helps the community to highlight what are the current hottest topics
>>>> - enables "easy" moderation
>>>> - can be used on different screens
>>>> - ...and well... are open source ;)
>>>>
>>>> So far I see two tools:
>>>> - the Ubuntu Discourse http://www.discourse.org/
>>>> - as we are using the CMS Drupal for our website, we can simply
>>>> activate the forum (limited)  or better probably go the the Harmony
>>>> Core <https://www.drupal.org/project/harmony_core> that is part of the Commons
>>>> distribution <https://www.drupal.org/project/commons>
>>>>
>>>> So far from a user perspective I favor Discourse
>>>> <http://www.discourse.org/>. BTW Ubuntu is using it. I can only
>>>> encourage you to give it a try <http://try.discourse.org/> and tell me.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Matthieu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Matthieu Pinard
>>>> DHIS 2 Academy & Community Coordinator | University of Oslo
>>>>
>>>> On 9 October 2014 22:39, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know about any other existing forums that could be
>>>>> potentially more suitable?
>>>>>
>>>>> If not I'm all for giving this a try. I think going for a forum that
>>>>> is well-known has more legs than starting our own.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lars
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Phone: +47 90733036
>>>
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