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Hi, On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Collie, Aaron <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > Am I the only one that feels like it is something worth revisiting? > > I would think given this community's success with backchannels and > communication, the concept might benefit from some code4lib incubation. Or > maybe that already happened and there is just not enough interest in a Q&A > site. > I started participating in the Libraries StackExchange towards the end of the beta, and was sorry to see it go. I personally found it most interesting, at least in principle, as one way of gathering together Q&A from disparate library software developer and user communities. Perhaps a broader remit that aimed to include more information management and information service professionals might have better chance of attaining StackExchange's activity targets, but it's not a sure thing, given the very strong mailing list culture that a lot of librarians and archivists are used to. To give a concrete example, one question that would deserve an answer is why would a cataloger use a StackExchange (or a clone thereof) rather than AUTOCAT? I have no sense how the StackExchange folks would respond to taking another bite at the apple. Certainly there are a number of clones [1] that we could host, for some C4L-ish definition of the word "we", which wouldn't require that we meet StackExchange's activity guidelines. [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: [log in to unmask] direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org