Hello. Very interested, as always, to help. Will also solicit the volunteer help of some of our colleagues, especially from our SG/PH friends. Any additional pointers/materials to get things started I can also share with them? Will get back to you as soon as I check with teams (and their free/available cycles). *Thank you and good day, Dean Marc.* Director | Cloud | Mobile | Data Sciences | Architecture | Design | Engineering | Technology | Digital | Innovations *HK - Dungeon Innovations Pvt. Ltd.* Bonham Trade Centre, 50 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan +852 81 913 409 *PH - Dungeon Innovations* 49 Annapolis Street, Greenhills, San Juan City, 1500 +63 920 2928888 | +63 2 7440320 SG - Javasparks Pte. Ltd. 111 North Bridge Road, Singapore, 179098 +65 8542 9962 http://180.javasparks.com/ http://www.twitter.com/deanmarc http://www.twitter.com/DungeonInn On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano@openstack.org> wrote:

Hello folks,

I'd like to recap the status of Ask OpenStack, one of the most visited web properties in openstack.org domain.

TL;DR The project needs lots of love if we want it to survive. Volunteers are needed to drive its progress.

I had a long roadmap for that project, from implementing new languages (Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese to start) to improve the spam filters, improve the UI/UX, etc but all those requests had to wait for two major work:

1) complete the OpenStackID provider so that Ask OpenStack could use it 2) upgrade the code to newer upstream releases

At turn, these 2 work items depended on putting Ask fully under openstack-infra umbrella. That took almost a year but finally that the project's infrastructure is finally fully managed via a puppet module http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/puppet-askbot/

The software is consumed directly upstream from https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel and the html skin is pulled from http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/askbot-theme/

So all the pieces are now in place for the roadmap to resume progressing.

Issue is that I don't have time anymore to drive that effort.

There are issues open that haven't been addressed. The spam/moderation issues are the most pressing ones.

The list of open issues is on:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-community/+bugs?field.tag=askproject

I hope that someone can step up to take ownership of this project and drive it forward, considering that the Foundation has in place a contract with the main developer of Askbot that can be leveraged.

Cheers, stef

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