Hello,
I had a project idea in mind for the Google Summer of Code 2017 that I will like to put forward in front of the community.
Idea description:
Currently, we have various resources such as ask fedora, wiki, forums, etc. where a user can go and find resources to their queries. The problem here is that the resources are scattered along various locations. A user may have to hop from one location to another to get their queries answered. Another thing that happens is, sometimes these resources are not updated to the latest version, and hence sometimes provides the user with some outdated information associated with their queries.
A possible solution can be the implementation of instant answers. The concept of Instant answers is based along the lines of something which Google and DuckDuckGo already do. Basically, what happens here is that, an user asks a question and they are provided with one single answer instead of the multiple answers written in respect to that question (this is what happens in forums, there are multiple options associated with a single question). Which answer is displayed to the user, can be decided by the process of community members voting on the provided answers (The highest voted answer will be displayed as soon as it reaches a particular threshold of positive votes).
The initial knowledge base for the prescribed platform can be sourced from the existing locations such as AskFedora, Wikis, etc. Further, over the course of time, the knowledge base will expand as the users ask different questions and the community members writes answers for the same and vote over the existing one.
Some of the advantages associated with the project can be summed up as:
- A simplified answer solution which answers user queries without making them hop to different locations
- A single location through which the users can find answers to their queries
- A possible up-to-date repository of answers associated with different project versions and release versions
- A vote based system to involve the community members to verify the answers being provided by the other community members
Some of the future plans associated with such a system can be:
- Integration into the desktop environments such that the user doesn't have to fire up any other application to ask their queries
- A Fedora tagger like platform which can be used by the community to answer the queries and vote over the existing answers.
I will like to know the thoughts of the community over this proposal as a project for GSoC 2017 :)
Regards,
Saurabh Badhwar (h4xr)
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