Open Stack

How about this...

www.stackertalk.com

Since I'm not a developer I'd like to contribute in some form or another :) There is a lot more refinement that needs to go into the site but I'm happy to run this forum. If anyone would like to help moderate/administer please let me know.

I like the StackOverflow model for very specific questions as someone mentioned earlier, but MANY prefer the flow and conversation style of forums, especially when coming to learn more about something they haven't arrived at specific questions for. Direct dev involvement isn't absolutely necessary but would certainly be welcome from time to time. You can always subscribe to the feed and watch for topics that peak your interest, etc.

Thoughts/concerns/feedback? I had a license I didn't mind using for XenForo which is a nice forum implementation and they should have the ability to mark specific threads as answered/not resolved in the near future. There is the ability to rate individual contributors and answers as well.

-- Chad

On May 4, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:

> I guess I am the target audience for this question.  I am a system admin
> although I do some programming my primary job it to keep things running
> and to build out new hardware.  I started looking at using open stack a
> month or so ago as VMware isn't open source and I am looking to move off
> that platform.  I can tell you the process of even testing openstack is
> extremely hard why?  Because there is a lot of disjointed information
> with a lot of blue prints in the wiki but no easy way to tell what is
> and isn't yet ready.  There is limited install instructions unless you
> want to install on your laptop and if you get into trouble doing the
> setup the only real option I have it IRC.
> 
> Example: I had a question about openstack compute I asked a question in
> the mail list and was told this wasn't to correct place I should use
> answers with a link to answers were I spent an hours on lanchpad even
> tiring to figure out were to even ask my question.  I gave up and ask my
> question in IRC.  It took 2 or 3 times asking the question before
> someone replied.  Most people would have ditched this project long ago
> but I see great potential out of this project.  In the end I moved this
> project to not viable at this time waiting for it to mature in to a
> usable project.
> 
> Will adding a forum be a magic bullet no.  Will it add a place that is
> easy to use and find information for non developers bring this project
> closer to being usable by people like me likely.  Could it turn out to
> be a waste of resources that no one ever uses possibly.
> 
> Thanks
> Robert
> 
> On 05/04/2011 12:21 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>> Me too. I can't stand Launchpad's Answers system and I don't
>> particularly care for forums in general. The StackOverflow style is an
>> easy-to-use alternative.
>> 
>> As soon as I can turn LP Answers for Glance off and move to a
>> StackExchange-like system, the better, IMHO.
>> 
>> -jay
>> 
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Jay Payne <letterj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Add me as well
>>> 
>>> --J
>>> 
>>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Ed Leafe <ed.leafe at rackspace.com> wrote:
>>>> On May 4, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Everett Toews wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Below is a list of people from this thread who are in favor (or at least interested in trying) the StackExchange style.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>       Add me to that list.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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