Offered Discourse Hosting for the OpenNMS Community
Ronny Trommer <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:14:51 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.opennms.devel,gmane.network.opennms.general |
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--===============2266073684932675241== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_11DDFD1F-B446-45B3-BA60-0C5CE1BF055E"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 --Apple-Mail=_11DDFD1F-B446-45B3-BA60-0C5CE1BF055E Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_C9697A0A-9C5C-4A2F-818B-CDED98EC6212" --Apple-Mail=_C9697A0A-9C5C-4A2F-818B-CDED98EC6212 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello World, I got in contact with someone working for the Discourse group. The = OpenNMS project and the community qualifies for their free Open = Source[1] hosted Discourse service. They are willing to provide us a = free discourse instance for example "opennms.discourse.group" or = whatever we pick in the domain space "*.discourse.group". I personally use Discourse in several other Open Source communities, = Hugo, Elastic and Grafana just to name a few and they doing a good job = to get me informed about new releases and other announcements. I got = also pretty quickly help when I don't want to talk with someone in = realtime. It works for me pretty well and I think this is the standard = what an open source community should have in these days. If you don't have an idea what discourse is, here two examples, you = don't ne a login to read: https://community.grafana.com <https://community.grafana.com/> https://discuss.elastic.co Right know we redirect questions to StackOverflow, but the questions = people asking related to OpenNMS do not fit into the StackOverflow = category and get redacted with the hint to move to other forums in the = Exchange network. I don't think it is well accepted, we just have 117 = questions tagged as "opennms". In my very personal opinion it would make sense to establish a = Mattermost and a Discourse instance as the two default communication = channels in our community. Without thinking a lot here a first idea for categories we could use: General: Replacement for the opennms-discuss mailing list Announcements: A place for TWiO, Conferences where OpenNMS or people in = the community are present Development: Replacement for the opennms-discuss mailing list Releases: New Releases We should have at least 2 or 3 moderators. So I'll ask you kindly dear = reader to think about volunteering as a moderator. Here[3] is what a = moderator would need to do. Before I get back to the Discourse guys and let them run this service = for us, I want to get some feedback from you if this is worth doing or = should we just keep everything as it is cause you are happy? What do you think? P.S. For the "What If" people: If we grow too much we get noticed and need to move to their Standard = plan where we would get a 50% non-profit discount [2] We want a custom domain like community.opennms.com = <http://community.opennms.com/> and not opennms.discourse.group -> same = as 1. Somebody volunteers to host the instance for our community -> we will = get the data and be on our own [1] = https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-commun= ity-friendly-github-projects/ = <https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-commu= nity-friendly-github-projects/> [2] https://payments.discourse.org/pricing = <https://payments.discourse.org/pricing> [3] https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116 = <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116> --Apple-Mail=_C9697A0A-9C5C-4A2F-818B-CDED98EC6212 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=3D"">Hello= World,<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">I got in = contact with someone working for the Discourse group. The OpenNMS = project and the community qualifies for their free Open Source[1] hosted = Discourse service. They are willing to provide us a free discourse = instance for example "opennms.discourse.group" or whatever we pick in = the domain space "*.discourse.group".</div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">I personally use Discourse in several = other Open Source communities, Hugo, Elastic and Grafana just to name a = few and they doing a good job to get me informed about new releases and = other announcements. I got also pretty quickly help when I don't want to = talk with someone in realtime. It works for me pretty well and I think = this is the standard what an open source community should have in these = days.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">If you = don't have an idea what discourse is, here two examples, you don't ne a = login to read:</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D""><ul class=3D"MailOutline"><li class=3D""><a = href=3D"https://community.grafana.com" = class=3D"">https://community.grafana.com</a></li><li class=3D""><a = href=3D"https://discuss.elastic.co" = class=3D"">https://discuss.elastic.co</a></li></ul></div><div = class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">Right know we redirect = questions to StackOverflow, but the questions people asking related to = OpenNMS do not fit into the StackOverflow category and get redacted with = the hint to move to other forums in the Exchange network. I don't think = it is well accepted, we just have 117 questions tagged as = "opennms".</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">In = my very personal opinion it would make sense to establish a Mattermost = and a Discourse instance as the two default communication channels in = our community.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D"">Without thinking a lot here a first idea for categories we = could use:</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D""><ul = class=3D"MailOutline"><li class=3D"">General: Replacement for the = opennms-discuss mailing list</li><li class=3D"">Announcements: A place = for TWiO, Conferences where OpenNMS or people in the community are = present</li><li class=3D"">Development: Replacement for the = opennms-discuss mailing list</li><li class=3D"">Releases: New = Releases</li></ul></div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D"">We should have at least 2 or 3 moderators. So I'll ask you = kindly dear reader to think about volunteering as a moderator. Here[3] = is what a moderator would need to do. </div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">Before I get back to the Discourse guys = and let them run this service for us, I want to get some feedback from = you if this is worth doing or should we just keep everything as it is = cause you are happy?</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D"">What do you think?</div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">P.S. For the "What If" = people:</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D""><ol = class=3D"MailOutline"><li class=3D"">If we grow too much we get noticed = and need to move to their Standard plan where we would get a 50% = non-profit discount [2]</li><li class=3D"">We want a custom domain like = <a href=3D"http://community.opennms.com" = class=3D"">community.opennms.com</a> and not = opennms.discourse.group -> same as 1.</li><li class=3D"">Somebody = volunteers to host the instance for our community -> we will get the = data and be on our own</li></ol></div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">[1] <a = href=3D"https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-fo= r-community-friendly-github-projects/" = class=3D"">https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting= -for-community-friendly-github-projects/</a></div><div = class=3D"">[2] <a href=3D"https://payments.discourse.org/pricing" = class=3D"">https://payments.discourse.org/pricing</a></div><div = class=3D"">[3] <a = href=3D"https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116" = class=3D"">https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116</= a></div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_C9697A0A-9C5C-4A2F-818B-CDED98EC6212-- --Apple-Mail=_11DDFD1F-B446-45B3-BA60-0C5CE1BF055E Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEShtNBv7sJE0474B0kHWy5QiiRR4FAlv8DesACgkQkHWy5Qii RR58WAf9HHHRBG7jOqmldhj92dFpSLYCkcVREwcOucrdHoFq0eb36nAwKXGHz6Vf QP6/gECPpmGgH/adaWbCtaaAp6UGzgi099K7C6IKfBrhfacfGZJHlBLmdAYp8n3c 3VQZ+A+rvSuy3H3P7GYWY0bOxKZGNCHOcq0ZvlKnPcd3qJJjr8h/s/SSKZJlykMT WZELFIgfAkqvA+g14jP3AjuKi8xIMBLM/FnIer8VfSaW5qJLLcAsg46SqNrQkoMN c1yHqNn7PlhYvVBZFyXBgzQ+rvfQa9Pftyd8007b1iTjVy7mfan2BXFDNPuipu3C GAjQZ1lF9Cpr/lly4o26HusD6zw6Aw== =iSDz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_11DDFD1F-B446-45B3-BA60-0C5CE1BF055E-- --===============2266073684932675241== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --===============2266073684932675241== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline