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Thanks for that Mark. That's running on 'question2answer' which looks to have a reasonable amount of development going on around it https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/graphs/contributors (given Becky's comments about OSQA which still hold true) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: [log in to unmask] Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 4 Nov 2014, at 16:05, Mark A. Matienzo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Owen Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Another option would be a 'code4lib Q&A' site. Becky Yoose set up one for >> Coding/Cataloguing and so can comment on how much effort its been. In terms >> of asking/answering questions the use is clearly low but I think the >> content that is there is (generally) good quality and useful. >> >> I guess the hard part of any project like this is going to be building the >> community around it. The first things that occur to me is how you encourage >> people to ask the question on this new site, rather than via existing >> methods and how do you build enough community activity around housekeeping >> such as noting duplicate questions and merging/closing. The latter might be >> a nice problem to have, but the former is where both the Library / LIS SE >> and the Digital Preservation SE fell down, and libcatcode suffers the same >> problem - just not enough activity to be a go-to destination. > > > I would add that the Digital Preservation SE has been reinstantiated as > Digital Preservation Q&A <http://qanda.digipres.org/>, which is organized > and supported by the Open Planets Foundation and the National Digital > Stewardship Alliance. > > Mark A. Matienzo <[log in to unmask]> > Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America