@design_RG @freemo
If I set up a thread on Discourse to support remote learning (within STEM topics ) it it better to invite people to mastodon first then from here invite them to the discourse instance ?
I would like to move a casual support forum to here and discourse as where it is right now just isn't working at all.
As we are STEM related, then I guess this includes computing and computer science, so hopefully it can be somewhere to collate links to say game design courses for example.
Thanks
Paul
>> by the way this is a good reason not to delete inactive accounts I havent thought of. Our policy (though I never wrote it down and should) was always to garuntee users from qoto on other services.
I can see that maybe a revision is in order -- as the instance priority imo should be to have active user accounts and no zombie ones. So -- if a person is deserving of using any of the other services (and Discourse should be fully open to new signups if we want it to be useful for new project ideas) this could be verified upon an application, with reference to the applicant other online presences.
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The social side is just one service in my mind. I would be more than happy to see open source projects move into our GIT instance, use our forum for support, and have no interest in the social media side. Not everyone who wants to be a developer for an open-source project we host should be required to be active here. Hell A lot of the people on gitlab that are developers for my own projects that I pulled in from git have inactive accounts here and only use the GIT side.
I would suggest you could request a subforum from Freemo, who can create of for your project -- and then you can invite people to join Discourse and use it.
The Projects area is here : https://discourse.qoto.org/c/PROJ/5
If they like to join us here in the instance, the normal admission requirements apply, they can go to the front door and fiil in a request.
I would say the requirements to join here are the same as the forum.. that being they have to be a STEM-interested individual. Given the nature of the forum you want that seems likely.
By the way I'd be happy to create a sub-project under the projects section for you if you wish, but just one curiosity.. if they are here to learn why not just use the forum as is. we already divide subjects out in their own section. Learning is part of our mission so why not just integrate them with QOTO general and use the existing forums as the learning space?
I really think Paul's group would benefit from their own subforum -- the forum structure as it is is labyrinthine for someone just arriving. A direct link to their own subforum would greatly focus things.
BTW --- I was going to ask -- Could I propose a new Pinafore Client subforum?
It is wonderful software and has no home or proper documentation in the Fedi or Web. I plan to develop written manual for it, but a forum can offer dialogue and a place for Q&A, etc.
Would advertize it widely if we got one. Under Projects. Email not needed for it, I think
Im happy to create paul his own subforum but personally id just point him here, we already have a single forum to point them to that serves the same purpose, and it has subforums by subject: https://discourse.qoto.org/c/STUDY/15
Thanks for this, much appreciated, hopefully it can be a place to discuss perhaps options for remote learning,
From there we can create sub threads, given there are lots of options it is good to be able to debate what is suitable for individual needs.
@zleap
The only reason its ideal to encourage them to get a QOTO account is because we garuntee your qoto account on the other servers. In the sense that if someone steals your username from qoto on another server we will delete taht user to free up the name for you. So its a good idea.
While we would like them to be active here strictly speaking they arent required
@design_RG by the way this is a good reason not to delete inactive accounts I havent thought of. Our policy (though I never wrote it down and should) was always to garuntee users from qoto on other services. So users who are only interested in our other services have a real need in some cases to have an account here they never post to.