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Questions that only arise in an open source context
I'd like to see discussion following this comment: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is more about the personal security of the user than open-source in general, although the ...
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Is [license-compatibility] the same as [compatibility]
I was approving edits in the Suggested Edits queue while I came across this: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/268 I approved it due to the description, we have a new tag. ...
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Vote appropriately to set the lines of our scope
As many members of the community were concerned that the scope was too narrow and that many questions were veering towards a particular topic, some members of the community have now started to draw ...
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When will it be appropriate to start electing/appointing moderators?
While the site has only been open for a couple of days, although I still think we could discuss when you think we should elect moderators. I think in roughly a week when the dedicated users have had a ...
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When will this open to the public?
When will the Open Source Stack Exchange open to the public? Will this be a quick process or will it be a while before this happens? How will it work?
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What time is Stack Exchange in?
I reached my reputation cap for today and was wondering when it will be tomorrow.. I know it is not the same time as where I am now!! If anyone could tell me the timezone that would be amazing!
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Are questions about collaborative development on-topic
I haven't found our site's "mission statement" yet, so consider this another step in developing one. Will we consider questions about collaborative development in general to be on-topic. Although ...
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Do we want recommendation/shopping questions?
Question in question: How to keep open source projects up to date This question is asking for software recommendations that is commonly utilized for version control (though doesn't mention "version ...
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How many of us regularly contribute to open source projects?
I use open source software, and I am interested in becoming a contributor, but at present I am not. I think the best expert level questions will come from people who have regular experience at working ...
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Is this meta tag on topic & in scope?
On this meta site, we have the tags on-topic and scope. These would appear to be redundant. Could we set one as a synonym of the other?
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Are FAQs on-topic?
This question is asking a question that can easily be answered by reading the resources from the well known resources (FSF and OSI). I think such a question is a FAQ regarding Free Software and Open ...
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Should we just allow open source?
In the question Are NC Creative Commons licenses on topic? I argued that the NC-clause of Creative Commons (and ND for that matter) isn't conforming to Open Source (while CC-BY and CC-SA are). But in ...
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Bad questions, or bad understanding?
I noticed that from this post that we have a substantial amount of questions closed... We have 84 questions And 180 answers Pretty good, isn't it? Of the 84 questions, 21 are closed at the time of ...
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Red Project, Blue Project, Small Project, Large Project? What's the Point?
I noticed these tags: large-project and small-project What's the purpose for these? P.S. Can we have puns for tag questions here too? (With this one, I tried...)
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What are our main risks of not getting to public beta?
Although it seems like we have only just started, in private beta years we've been doing this a long time. How are we doing? Is there anything that we should be doing but are not yet? Are we doing ...