Please do three small things to help create drones.stackexchange.com

Hi ya'll,

I just posted about this on the APM dev list, but it would be great to get some participation in a drones.stackexchange site. For those not familar stackexchange/stackoverflow is a great web format for asking questions and getting answers. The person who asks the question marks the best answer (karma?) and (hopefully) a whole ecosystem of drone users helping other drone users develops. I think it has the potential to be possibly an even better way of doing many of the Q&A type posts here on diydrones.

I've just created a proposal to have a drones.stackexchange.com, and now is the point where stackexchange does an evaluation to see if there is enough interest to make the site. Can you please help?

The steps are easy:

Go here and choose to follow this proposed group.
Post a sample question of the sort you'd think a drones Q&A site could answer.
Upvote the questions that you think are the best examples of the sort of Q&A a site like this could provide.
(optional) Please pass the word on various other drone sites.

After we pass the hurdle of 50 followers/upvoted questions then the site will go live and we'll see how useful it is (or is not). I promise to promptly answer any andropilot questions ;-)

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Developer

Kevin Hester June 5, 2013 at 8:32am

Andrew - I totally agree! I didn't know about that stack exchange. I'll support that instead and update this groups description as appropriate.
Chris Gough June 4, 2013 at 12:09am

@Andrew Lynch,

Maybe. Here, I added a question to the robotics stack exchange, let's see how that goes.

http://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/1378/how-to-tell-when-a...
Andrew Lynch June 3, 2013 at 9:02am

a robotics stack exchange is in beta now and its still trying to get up the proper numbers.

I think forming a drones stack exchange will see similar issues. Why not just put all the effort into one robotics/drones/RC community on stack exchange
Chris Gough June 3, 2013 at 2:45am

This is an interesting idea, I'm following... But how does this compliment/work with the existing DIYDrones forum format? Is it splitting the community, in essence a fork? Stack exchange has some great features, if it works out it could be a more efficient way to share knowledge.
Moderator

Mark Harrison May 30, 2013 at 6:57pm

I added a couple of "generic RC" questions that seem to pop up a lot, such as a couple about propeller orientation and reversing. I'm interested to see how those question get voted relative to "pure" drone questions.
Moderator

Mark Harrison May 30, 2013 at 12:52am

@Kevin, I used to use stack overflow as my evening time-waster before I got hooked on drone flying!
Sebastian S. May 30, 2013 at 12:10am

@Jon: +1
Joshua Johnson May 29, 2013 at 8:59pm

@Jon, UAV and UAS kinda limits the questions to aerial robots. The word Drone/Drones covers the entire spectrum of autonomous vehicles.
Just my 2 cents.

Joshua Johnson
Jon May 29, 2013 at 5:42pm

How about UAV or UAS instead of drone?
Primož Kralj May 29, 2013 at 3:05pm

I was thinking just the other day why isn't there a drones QA at stackexchange :) Will support.

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