<div>This is just my opinion, but I feel that QA systems like askbot and stackexchange are far superior for this type of community effort than a forum like phpbb. Case in point, I almost never find the answer to my programming or system administration problems on a forum anymore, I instead find them on *.<a href="http://stackexchange.com">stackexchange.com</a>.</div>
<div><br></div>I don't think it has to do with owning the data as much as the arduous process of getting a stackexchange instance. The <a href="http://robotics.stackexchange.com/">http://robotics.stackexchange.com/</a> has been working towards getting vetted for a long time now, perhaps ROS questions/answers could live there in the future, but having a dedicated ROS stackexchange is not feasible IMHO.<div>
<br></div><div>--<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Claudio Carbone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cla_carbone@tiscali.it" target="_blank">cla_carbone@tiscali.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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you can have subforums tailored to the specific argument (<font color="#666666">eg: building which would cover build systems and
package/stack structures; transformations which would cover urdf
models, joints, publishers; Communications which would cover the
ROS API, topics, services, etc...</font>)<br>
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I just remembered that the <a href="http://phpbb.org" target="_blank">phpbb.org</a> support forum (phpbb being one
of the widest spread free forum platforms) even has
sub-sub-<...>-forums for each and every plugin/modification
where the creator of the plugin/mod can answer users questions far
from the main busy discussion areas keeping them clean.<br>
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I can't but think this would be much more useful to the community.<br>
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Although I acknowledge that it's ultimately a management decision
from WG or whoever will guide ROS in the future.<div class="im"><br>
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Best regards<br>
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