Re: [libreoffice-users] Question&Answer system evaluation

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:59 +0100, Alexander Werner wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> while discussing the possible platforms for an official user forum, the idea arose[1] to also 
> evaluate a Q&A forum, similar to the well-known stackoverflow[2].
> I've set up an instance of askbot to allow users to test such a forum and comment on this idea. 
> You can access it at http://osqa-test.libreoffice.org.
> Feel free to register an account (at the moment, local user accounts, Facebook, twitter and 
> various openid providers are supported) and test the installation.
> Comments, bug reports and improvement suggestions are very welcome, either by using the "give 
> feedback"[3] link at the bottom of each page or at the website list or, of course, in askbot 
> itself[3].
> For a explanation how such Q&A platforms work, please see the faq[4] and my short explanation 
> here:
> * Q&A forums don't provide room for general discussions, polls, rants etc. and are therefore more 
> targeted.
> * Users can select correct answers and vote for answers. Selected and most voted answers are 
> shown first, drastically improving clarity.
> * User activities such as answering questions or voting answers leads to karma. With more karma, 
> the rights of users grow until the user has full moderation rights. This allows to grow a self 
> sustaining community.
> * Answers can be edited collaboratively (so called "community wiki" posts)
>
> Of course, trying it out is worth a thousand words :)

Hi,

Thanks for the information Alex.

I feel that it would be inappropriate to not mention at this early stage
that three platforms of this style service have been put forward as
possible solutions.

Shapdeo:
http://libreoffice.shapado.com/

The above site is a hosted instance of the software, the package itself
is FOSS and could be hosted within the TDF infrastructure. 

Questions2Answers:
http://www.question2answer.org/

There is not a LibreOffice specific test site, or hosted running site,
for this package - so just a link back to the projects home, where you
can find links to existing site.

The three packages are quite similar, as would be expected, but do have
slight differences - also each is developed using different
language/toolset which can be a factor in determining which makes sense
for our use.

Thanks,

Drew Jensen



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