Introducing Discourse to communities

Community Ops
#1

Hi,

We really need a way to introduce Discourse to all of our communities. I’ve updated https://wiki.mozilla.org/IT/Community/WG/MCSHosting to reflect the new form, and make things simpler for the community managers reading it.

I will also update https://wiki.mozilla.org/IT/Community/WG/Discourse explaining how to get a category, but we should probably reach out to communities. @Logan would you be interested in this? It could help gather more contact info for Wordpress, too. Not sure I have time to reach out this week, or next, so if someone does, that would be great.

#2

Are we ready for that?

I suppose for communities the answer is yes, even if Mozilla at large does not choose to use Discourse, it would still be a good tool for local communities so they don’t have to set up their own discussion forums before they’re ready.

#3

I think we are.
Looking at the feedback so far, I think we can start sharing this tool a bit more now. Sure, it’s not going to replace most of our discussion lists yet, but our communities are a great starting point.

#4

I’d once of thinking using this discourse for our newly local FSA projects start this semester, if it’s possible to open a separate independent category, it’ll be a really good communication channel for us to use.

Or I’ll like to ask, are we ready for “non-english non-CBT” subjects to be appear at here? And, are we expect this discourse last for many years (and not as a short-time experimental instance.)

#5

We are so not ready for this. I don’t think we yet have a good sense of whether Discourse can scale (not just the server, but in terms of information architecture) to running what are currently 150 separate mailing lists. And if we encourage lots of people to move organically, any hope of a structured arrangement will be blown.

We need just enough people and groups to do whatever testing we are doing now, and no more. :slight_smile:

Gerv