Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

One thing to consider in moving the community is supplementing the forum with a Q&A site such as stackexchange which is a much better format for the vast majority of users seeking answers to their questions compared to a forum that is more discussion based where answers can get lost in the noise.

There is an open source alternative software to stackexchange:OSQA

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

How much of that would you say is utilised during peak (regular, not DDOS) times?

Wouldn't that be much easier on an open source platform though? A community-developed VB plug-in seems like a non-starter if every volunteer developer has to shell out $195 just for being able to play.

Hm, that would effectively make migration practically impossible so perhaps the rest is moot :-/

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

We can always migrate posts content, without migrating users (as content was already publicized in... well, public.). At least in EU it works and is legal.

/Estel

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Of course, it would be only about content from users, that are not interested in giving permission (can't be pinged, or not willing to).

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In worse situation, we may do something like our own "wayback machine", i.e. big archive of "snapshot" from content of threads presented already, ending with link to actual, "live" discussion in future forum.

Not most convenient, but there are tools to do so via batch, and it's better than nothing.

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

In the bottom left of this and all tmo pages it says all content cc isn't that enough for migration?

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

Good catch, qwazix. Also, users agree to TMO rules upon registering, so it's possible that this "all content creative common" is covering us.

By the way, I agree with lma, that migration for Open forum engine is a must.

/Estel

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

As long it has the Thanks! button, I'm okay with that. :)

(Got used quite a bit to the current one though. :))

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

Hm, yeah, there are a couple of issues at hand: content (ie public posts), and user data. If we can't migrate the latter then all we have is a read-only archive.

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

Well, quick&dirty system for handling auto-asking for allowance - if it's really needed - could be set-up. This could be even beneficial - during transfer, we would drop accounts of MIA/uninterested people (i.e, those that fail to permit their accoutns migration during, lets say, 5 or 6 months deadline).

But, considering that *everything* is CC, it seems to apply for visible user profiles to. As for rest, we're not keeping any personal data, like address or real name (unless someone provided it to TMO, agreeing to CC content), so I think it's really less of an issue, that looked initially.

/Estel

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

We need to speed this up. Nokia keeps increasing the angle of attack with every news release.

So the more news about Nokia that comes out, the closer they are to implosion. 4th quarter income warning may be the final item to do them in. So we need to be out of here in 4-5 months...

Re: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
 

i hope i can help :o