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Mon 20 Mar 2017 2:16AM

Establishing a Community Forum for IPFS and Related Projects

MZ Matt Zumwalt Public Seen by 27

In order to have a thriving, healthy community for IPFS and its related projects (Multiformats, libp2p, etc.) we need to create a Community Forum and maintain it. Over many months, this topic has been intermittently discussed. The background for those discussions, including a list of the proposals that have been considered, is outlined in https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/decisions/community-forum-platform.md

Even if we don't use discourse, we need to settle on a strong plan for supporting the growing global IPFS community. If the first proposal fails, this thread will stay open until someone proposes a better solution and the community votes to adopt that approach.

We are testing loomio as a way to make community decisions like this one. In the long run we will probably revert to using github or gitlab for decisions, but loomio offers a useful way to learn the mechanics of decision making -- something that has been missing from the past 18 months of discussion about community forums -- so that we can apply those mechanics in github or gitlab.

The major proposals considered were:
* Proposal: Build Our Own Decentralized Forum Software on IPFS
* Proposal: Continue to Use Github for All Community Support
* Proposal: Use a StackExchange Subdomain for Q&A
* Proposal: Use Discourse for All Community Support

Related Github Issues:

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David Dias
Abstain
Wed 22 Mar 2017 3:27PM

I'll abstain from this decision and not disagree with a vote of willingness to try it out after seeing so many new names agreeing. Will look forward to everyone using extensively :)

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Hector
Agree
Wed 22 Mar 2017 4:24PM

I generally agree with how discourse will help and why we need it and I think there is enough commitment to make it work.

KS

Kuba Sztandera Tue 21 Mar 2017 10:11PM

@jaycarpenter Telescope is great idea for aggregation of data and info but it won't solve the issue that we are facing which is unified community forum.

JC

Jay Carpenter Wed 22 Mar 2017 12:13AM

@kubuxu did you read WTFM (http://roaming-initiative.com/blog/posts/wtfm) that @lgierth posted in the meeting notes from 2017-03-20? Yesterday was the first time I'd seen WTFM. Last night I read WTFM and thought it made some key points relevant to the community building intention at hand and organic documentation discussion. I'm interested in your views on WTFM.

KS

Kuba Sztandera Wed 22 Mar 2017 2:26AM

@jaycarpenter Yes I know WTFM approach for a long time. I try to encourage it on many occasions (if you figure it out, write it down; I can help you but create doc on it).

Problem with WTFM is that it is hard to apply it fully in practice but it is discussion for other occasion but we should strive to at least partially follow and apply the WTFM methodology.

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Oleksii Konashevych Wed 22 Mar 2017 10:17PM

I totally support this idea!

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Jayanta (Jay) Wed 3 May 2017 11:50AM

Lets do it.. we need a Discourse and a proper place to hang out with IPFS community. I am in . :thumbsup: