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I'm probably beating a dead horse, but there's definitely interest in having the ability to create a meta OSQA site that is linked to the main OSQA site so your user account is the same on both. Other questions regarding this: http://meta.osqa.net/questions/5983/is-there-a-plan-to-offer-linked-meta-sites http://meta.osqa.net/questions/1232/provide-a-meta-site-with-every-site-with-single-sign-on Can a core developer speak to whether or not this is planned? Or is this only ever going to be a feature of Qato and not OSQA? (no bad blood, I'll probably be using Qato at some point) |
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One of the basic features Qato supports is the idea of "Spaces", which are arbitrary sub-scopes within a Q&A community. This makes it super-easy to provide, among other things, an intrinsic meta-site for any Qato site or network of sites. In situations like this where Qato already provides a feature, DZone is less inclined to build and offer that same feature in OSQA. It could happen, but it is not very likely. One possibility, however, is that we might possibly provide this via a plugin module if we begin offering hosted OSQA services. Our Qato hosting has done quite well, and we may extend our hosting offering to include OSQA support for smaller sites (which could subsequently graduate to Qato as they grow.) DZone has built several useful plugin modules we use on our own OSQA sites, and we'd probably include those in a hosted OSQA offering. I think the idea of starting with OSQA hosting and "graduating" to Qato would be perfect! You have your first client right here. For the OSQA hosting you could consider pricing like Qhub.com, YouSaidIt.com, GetSponge.com or AnswerBase.com (minus AB's insane pageview limits with CPM overage charges). For example, Qhub has a Free account (severely limited, basically just for testing), Pro at $40 a month, SME at $100 a month and enterprise starting at $500 a month. The other sites have plans in the $200 a month range too. Thanks for the detailed answer.
(03 Aug '11, 11:02)
drewoid
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