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

Also, be sure to communicate to everyone that they need to "upvote" the
questions, after they have been created. Each person gets 5 upvotes it
seems, perhaps depending on reputation or something similar.

See here for some more metrics on another topic

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/55053/data-science

Not so sure we could generate 5 questions per day?

Regards,
Jason



On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Lars Kristian Roland
>>>> Research Fellow, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>> Email: lars@xxxxxxxxx - roland@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Phone: +47 90733036
>>>>
>>>>
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>>


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