Hello,

Is there any plans for porting the main talk.maemo.org site using something similar to StackOverflow

Although the forum has many nice features still it is much easier to communicate through SO like interfaces. While StackExchange is going open somebody on board could take advantage of this process for the benefit of the community.

The above link has a misspelling that takes you to a typo-squatting site.

I too find that the talk.maemo forum interface is pretty poor. Active topics and new posts get buried too quickly off the main page, so a lot of interesting stuff never gets discussed because most people never have a chance to see it.

Thanks for the catch. I fixed the typo. I agree with your observations.

Maemo.org pages (talk, wiki, etc) usually overloaded with information. For a beginner to the community it is hard to locate useful information easily. I usually end up reading multiple entries or many time irrelevant/old information either on wiki or talk.

Stackoverflow interface mixes all Wikis, Blogs, Forums, and Digg/Reddit in one-place simplying the access and interraction of information very much easier than the exisiting alternatives. See SO about section for more info. (It's annoying that one cannot try to post a link or image and browse another tab at the same time.)

Yes, we want in-place commenting. Come on guys let's make some noise

Here comes two OSS alternatives to StackOverflow:

http://array-shift.com/
http://www.osqa.net/

Let's build one for the Maemo community...

One more link:

http://linuxexchange.org/

StackExchange (using the same code-base as Stack Overflow) is pretty much free now.
We could just propose a Maemo-based site on their new staging area (Area51) and if enough people signed up they would host it.

Edit: Proposed on StackExchange.
I'm not sure if it will gain the inertia it would need to be successful - but we lose nothing by trying.

Can't we just do the same thing under maemo.org domain?

Possibly - but it seems like it would be a lot of work to implement, plus get it through the bureaucracy.

How does this maemo.org bureaucracy works? Via proposals or by making lots of noises in the forum pages (aka whoever gets the highest reply count?)