Question2answer service for APIs related questions

[kyyberi]

It might be cool and useful to have stack overflow type of platform for community driven and maintained q2a activities. We could then easily add "ask help from community" type of buttons here and there for example in API docs. We could implement this with Question2answer open source platform. It is in use for example in http://avoindata.net

[kyyberi]

The platform to use (one option among others) is here http://www.question2answer.org/ It is php based and has some issues, but works amazingly well. We could perhaps put it in own domain qa.apinf.com. What needs to be checked is that has the official version included API to master branch or not. If not, I have created pull API (REST/JSON) for it. (https://github.com/kyyberi/avoindata-net)

[kyyberi]

Here's one implementation of how to utilize Q2A platform http://qhub.com/how-it-works.php

[bajiat]

@kyyberi We have installed Discourse as community platform for API and API management related discussions. Does this suffice or should we still look into Q2A?

[kyyberi]

IMHO discourse is enough for this purpose. More realtime chatting we could use https://apiops.slack.com/ (autojoin page: https://joinapiops.herokuapp.com/)