Need help getting an Ubuntu Stack Exchange created through promotion

[Isaac Bowen]

In fact, Gmail thought this /was/ spam.

Imho, Stack Overflow is not spiritually a good match for Ubuntu. As a
product. That said, and issues of integration with the Ubuntu dev ecosystem
aside, functionally it surpasses Launchpad as a simple and low-bar-to-entry
solution for q&a. You could consider this as loosely analogous to using
proprietary hardware drivers, when an equally functional oss driver is not
available.

I think the solution here is to extend Launchpad, honestly. A Stack Overflow
instance would definitely be useful, but I don't know if Canonical/Ubuntu
should take ownership of it. Doesn't seem to fit.

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Isaac Bowen


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Be Netritious <netritious at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm fairly new to Ubuntu (little over a year) but I am surprised by
> the reaction to this idea.
>
> Until yesterday when the initial email came in I had not heard of
> stack overflow, but it's an interesting web site that seems to cater
> to all things technical and geared towards programmers. As a
> programmer myself I welcome more resources, even ones that might
> challenge or compete with Ubuntu resources. Competition brings to
> light what is good, but more importantly what is better.
>
> If I could sum up the reaction I would say it's been overwhelmingly
> critical of stack overflow being closed source, which is an illogical
> argument since Ubuntu LoCo's use twitter and facebook, both of which
> are proprietary platforms.
>
> The argument that having additional resources "would spread Ubuntu
> thin" is just, well, also illogical. It's "Spread Ubuntu" not "Spread
> Ubuntu this much [  ] then stop." The first tutorial I followed to
> setup a HA cluster for VMware Server on Ubuntu was from How To Forge
> as no such tutorial existed on Ubuntu's plethora of web sites. Without
> that tutorial this user would still be using Windows or some other
> distribution. The success of that third-party tutorial was Ubuntu's
> success -- Ubuntu gained a new user, a new LoCo team member, and
> (hopefully one day) an official representative.
>
> Ubuntu in itself is convoluted to the new user. I had to register with
> launchpad, register with the forums, setup PGP to sign a Code of
> Conduct, etc. It didn't stop me nor would it stop anyone else that's
> truly interested in joining a LoCo, and just because there are
> additional resources on another web site doesn't mean Ubuntu users
> cannot benefit from them, and it doesn't mean that existing Ubuntu
> resources would suffer from it.
>
> Also why is it a problem that web sites monetize traffic from
> advertisements? I bet you all use Google, and not all projects have
> backing from zillionaires like Mark Shuttleworth.
>
> I truly don't see what all the fuss is about. The only complaint I
> have is the method in which the message was delivered. I don't think
> that the LoCo mailing lists are the most appropriate place to
> advertise third party web sites. In fact I thought this was another
> instance of spam getting through the system until I read it closely.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Rich Gray (netritious)
> #ubuntu-us-tn / http://ubuntu-tennessee.org
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