joomla stackexchange site..

[jasonrgd]

Can the PR team help the joomla community get a stackexchange site where people can dedicate themselves to technical and non technical joomla questions..
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposa ... TBzMD1JaA2

[Webdongle]

All Joomla questions on this forum require a technical answer to some degree.

[jessicadunbar]

Totally. Sorry for the late response! What do you have in mind?

[jessicadunbar]

All Joomla questions on this forum require a technical answer to some degree.

I'm aware.

[coolparth]

Well it really depends on how you would define technical. There are so many things on the forum that you can generally help with.

1. Joomla Admin Use & getting stuff done with Joomla doesnt need a lot of technical/technology knowledge.. If you say knowing how to use MS word is being technical , then yes Joomla admin & Management questions can be considered technical.

2. The second area where questions could be about what extensions to use etc.. again not high tech.. but will need you to have knowledge about extensions..

3. Real Tech - How to develop extensions, how to modify existing ones. template development etc.. Yes this will deff fall in the Technical side of things..

[coolparth]

Specific to this answer @Jason. We have been pushing it already on various 'non official' social channels already .. We will work on getting some more push on it !

Thanks for bringing it up

[Webdongle]

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1. Joomla Admin Use & getting stuff done with Joomla doesnt need a lot of technical/technology knowledge.. If you say knowing how to use MS word is being technical , then yes Joomla admin & Management questions can be considered technical.
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Many admin questions require knowledge of using phpMyAdimin or server configuration or knowledge of php to fix the problem ... how would the user know they require a technical answer when they don't know what the problem is ?

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2. The second area where questions could be about what extensions to use etc.. again not high tech.. but will need you to have knowledge about extensions..
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There is already a board for extensions

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3. Real Tech - How to develop extensions, how to modify existing ones. template development etc.. Yes this will deff fall in the Technical side of things..

Already a section in the forum for that http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=509

[coolparth]

@Webdongle i am not really clear what you are driving at . I guess i should have asked for a clarification first before answering in a general way Sorry about that..

My Perspective on this matter is that i agree that having a Stack Exhange dedicated Joomla area would help as it attracts a lot of talent & it will only help the Joomla Project.

Are you in agreement or Disagree ?

[Webdongle]

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My Perspective on this matter is that i agree that having a Stack Exhange dedicated Joomla area would help as it attracts a lot of talent & it will only help the Joomla Project.

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Who would use that "dedicated Joomla area" ... the Joomla devs who use Github ? or the 3rd party extension Dev's (many of which are Joomla devs) who also use Github ?

How would moving the focus of help away from the forum, docs.joomla.org and the development on Github add to the Joomla project ?

There are a lot of questions about Joomla on stack and I can see how some may see that concentrating those to one area of stack would be beneficial ... but would it not be better to direct those questions to the existing official help and documentation ? That way all the help is synchronised in Joomla and not 'out sourced' to another project.

[mandville]

I understood that the marketing team were tasked with promoting official joomla projects and the brand. I dont see how the proposal (that has been posted in numerous places and lists over the last number of years) meets those requirements

[jessicadunbar]

Hi all, im referencing a post from the mailing list
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!top ... deHzib1lk0
I'm looking for some writers for a Joomla Community Blog post and a JCM article for the StackExchange initiative:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58842/joomla

If anyone's interested in helping with this, please email me at nick.savov{@}community.joomla.org or reply directly to this post sometime this week.