Forwarding Fabian's message on to the GNOME doc list. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Fabian Rodriguez <<a href="mailto:Fabian.Rodriguez@canonical.com">Fabian.Rodriguez@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/2010 10:03 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: [...] <div class="im">> Is StackExchange free software? Does it have a web > services API? Perhaps we could integrate it into > Yelp. > </div><community hat> It's not, but it's hugely popular, and IMO a good way to reach more users. Another Q&A resource is <a href="http://ubuntu.shapado.com/" target="_blank">http://ubuntu.shapado.com/</a> - 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. </blockquote><div> 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. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I don't know about its support for APIs, etc. You can ask, well, at <a href="http://shapado.com" target="_blank">http://shapado.com</a> :) 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. </blockquote><div> 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. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> OTOH extending such tools to better integrate with Ubuntu resources would be nice. Look at the header at <a href="http://ubuntu.shapado.com/" target="_blank">http://ubuntu.shapado.com/</a> - 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 <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MagicFab" target="_blank">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MagicFab</a> Montreal, QC, Canada </community hat> </blockquote><div> Thanks, Fabian! Jim </div></div>