More ways to research commonly-asked questions

[Jim Campbell]

Forwarding Fabian's message on to the GNOME doc list.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Fabian Rodriguez <
Fabian.Rodriguez at canonical.com> wrote:

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> On 08/23/2010 10:03 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
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> > Is StackExchange free software? Does it have a web
> > services API? Perhaps we could integrate it into
> > Yelp.
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> <community hat>
> It's not, but it's hugely popular, and IMO a good way to reach more users.
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> Another Q&A resource is http://ubuntu.shapado.com/ - its engine is
> licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. The other main
> difference is its support for other languages, although right now only a
> few are in use.
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This is interesting.  It's too bad that so much community effort has already
been put into getting both an Ubuntu-specific Stack Exchange, and then a
more generic Linux-BSD-etc Stack Exchange.  Both Stack Exchange and Shapado
seem to perform similar functions, but the first is closed-source while the
second is open-source.  The latter would also work-in nicely with GNOME's
recent push to encourage more use of FAIF web-services.


> I don't know about its support for APIs, etc. You can ask, well, at
> http://shapado.com :)
>
> I don't know that I'd like Ubuntu's yelp to depend on any of these
> third-party online services (free or not), as many people don't have
> connectivity that would support this *and* such resources risk
> disappearing/moving any time.
>

I'm sure that the details around this would need to be ironed-out, but
having the option to go out to a centralized place for help on the web would
be a plus, I think.


>
> OTOH extending such tools to better integrate with Ubuntu resources
> would be nice. Look at the header at http://ubuntu.shapado.com/ - I
> linked to the Ubuntu docs - not saying that extraordinary, no! But it's
> another place pointing to our docs, and that's good (TM) :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> - --
> Fabián Rodríguez
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MagicFab
> Montreal, QC, Canada
>
> </community hat>
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Thanks, Fabian!

Jim
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