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[Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

i.e. something like http://serverfault.com/

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Morten

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> -1 for any kind of forum. I would love some kind of stackexchange like
> "forum" (or whatever its called, QA) though, much better for upvoting
> answers etc, we could even piggyback on existing solutions instead of
> hosting our own.
>
> Who knows, they might even let us add a DHIS2 section.
>
> --
> Morten
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason
>>
>> I think there are different problems to address here.
>>
>> That developer discussion doesn't happen on the devs list is certainly a
>> problem.  It should.  That is a question of transparency and process which
>> we should improve on.
>>
>> I don't think we should encourage the use of the dev list for all manner
>> of things, but rather encourage that it is used for what it was meant to be
>> used for.  Or drop it or rename it.
>>
>> Anyway I was not trying to solve all our community building efforts
>> related to lists with this mail.  Just airing an idea that Steven raised,
>> which I think might be quite useful.  Whether it is list, forum, usenet
>> group or googlegroup I don't have too strong a preference.
>>
>> Not much time right now anyway, but will keep listening to hear what
>> people say.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On 9 October 2014 12:34, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bob,
>>> I see the need, but am a bit concerned about establishing another
>>> mailing list. You can see from the dev list, that there are A LOT of
>>> non-dev topics already. Some of these are implementation issues, some
>>> end-user support, and a small smattering of Java jabberwocky. The dev list
>>> has sort of become the default mailing list for everything, and this is
>>> where people tend to go for support. The user list receives much less
>>> traffic, in spite of the fact that most of what is on the dev list is
>>> really not development related. While I think it is a good idea, there is
>>> inertia to overcome.
>>>
>>> Another idea which we have been contemplating is the establishment of a
>>> forum. This came out of the meeting in Oslo a few weeks back. I have been
>>> working with Lars Helge on this, but there is some more work which needs to
>>> be done before it would even be ready for testing. However,maybe a forum
>>> would be a better media for such discussions?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Alex Tumwesigye <atumwesigye@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brilliant idea.
>>>> Let's go for it.
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system
>>>>> administrators list.  Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the
>>>>> operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine
>>>>> images etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or
>>>>> about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.
>>>>>
>>>>> I said I'd run it by our extended community and try and gauge
>>>>> interest.  Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or
>>>>> not).  If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Alex Tumwesigye
>>>>
>>>> Technical Advisor - DHIS2,
>>>> Ministry of Health/AFENET
>>>> Kampala
>>>> Uganda
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> Systems - DHIS2 ) & Solar Consultant
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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