Re: Re: New website for the PHP project

On Tuesday, February 5, 2019 8:51 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/02/2019 17:32, Tom Worster wrote: > > > I have two suggestions, assuming you proceed roughly as outlined in > > your original post. > > > > 1. Start with /community > > > > > A new community website [4], it can be a place for people to ask > > > questions and discuss php in general - no one uses IRC anymore. > > Like all the bold ideas in this thread, that alone would need some > serious planning and commitment. > > Technically, it's easy - assuming you'd just install PHPBB / Gitter / > whatever, and not try to invent yet another wheel; but building a > community is hard. > > For a start, off the top of my head, you would need to figure out: > > - Who is this community aimed at, and how will you attract them to use it? > - Who will moderate it, and according to what policies? (Particularly > important if you're branding it as "the official PHP community") > > - How will it relate to all the existing community tools (IRC, > StackOverflow Chat, phpug.slack.com, these mailing lists, etc, etc)? > > If you can make it successful, I'm sure it would be a great asset, but > there's a long and uncertain road between here and there. > > Regards, > > -- > Rowan Collins > [IMSoP] > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > You are totally right. in my opinion the the community site should be targeted to all the PHP Community ( PHP Developer / Core Developers ) to ask questions about PHP, discuss the development of PHP and related topics. Moderation should be done by a Community Manager and Moderators. ( no idea for now who these would be, people we vote for or promoted by core members maybe ? ) For the software i would like to suggest https://flarum.org as well.