January 11, 2020

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Fora, Q&A, Mailing Lists, Chat...Oh My!

Fora, Q&A, Mailing Lists, Chat...Oh My!

The shear number of options available when building your online community can be daunting. Should you setup a forum or Q&A site? Or maybe both! Would users prefer Slack or IRC? Perhaps a mailing list …
Talk Title Fora, Q&A, Mailing Lists, Chat…Oh My!
Speakers Jeremy Garcia (Director of Technical Community and Open Source, Datadog)
Conference Open Source Summit North America
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Location Los Angeles, CA, United States
Date Sep 10-14, 2017
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The shear number of options available when building your online community can be daunting. Should you setup a forum or Q&A site? Or maybe both! Would users prefer Slack or IRC? Perhaps a mailing list would be better received? Should you just setup one of every available solution? In this presentation, Jeremy will cover the pros and cons of the various options and give some real world advice on where each option is the best fit.

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