Re: [libreoffice-website] official forums

On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 21:27 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Hi Drew, hi all!
>
> Am Samstag, den 12.11.2011, 13:54 -0500 schrieb drew:
> > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:28 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: 
> > > Hello,
> > <snip> 
> > > It is already rather clear, that there is a real overwhelming support 
> > > for having our own forums. I counted only one or two -1, everyone else 
> > > was in favor of hosting forums on our own.
> > >
> > > So, I am very much in favor of moving forward. I'd like to continue that 
> > > discussion on the website list, 
> >
> > OK 
>
> [...]
>
> One thing I'd like to add ... because it fits from the time
> point-of-view. This week, I've noticed a new software that is used in a
> partner company. It is called "Questions2Answers" (similar to
> stackoverflow, I guess) and is currently being developed under an
> open-source license.
>
> Maybe people want to have a look...
> http://www.question2answer.org/
>
> The demo sandbox...
> http://demo.question2answer.org/
>
> A working Q&A page ...
> http://www.question2answer.org/qa/
>
> Can be themed, many translations already exist, ...

Howdy Christoph

Great addition to the list. 

I believe there are pros and cons to type of platform:
- the more 'traditional' BBS style 
- the tag/rank based platforms, as here

and each package within a group
- shapedo, stackoverflow, question2answer ...
- FUDForum, phpBB, SimpleMachines ...

I really think that the different platform type come at delivery
features in rather different ways and maybe cater to somewhat different
user types (personas) - specifically a difference between people that
prefer to browse for information vs assisted search [assisted here
meaning use of a search box] and even then there are difference types of
browsing interactions - drill down vs jump to, is how I would name two
patterns.

Following the last difference:
-any of the current crop of BBS style packages (shuuld) allow a drill
down (hierarchical) based interaction pattern.

- while the Q+A systems are grounded in a tag based interaction pattern,
which is not to say that there is no hierarchy used in these packages,
there is.

So, I would suggest that, for just the moment, we try to look at package
pros and cons within it's group, as if we where going to setup one of
each - pushing back a final decision to one of, which type would be
implemented. [Maybe even making two grids on the wiki page - I'll look
at doing that if no minds, and or, if no one beats me to it :)]

Anyway - just some general thoughts and would look forward to
expanding/refining them with you and others.

//drew




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