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Can I use Satisfaction for a community, open source project?
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I am a developer of Greasemonkey extensions to enhance the Flickr experience. All of these are open source. Some other developers in the Flickr community provide other scripts, usually open source too.
The scripts are usually standalone and could be seen as "products". However, there is no "company" behind these productions. The community is loosely centered around the Flickr Hacks group on Flickr, but there is no real lead or centralisation in the effort.
I was wondering if I could register "Flickr Greasemonkey Hacks" as a company on Satisfaction and add individual scripts as product. To allow a simpler follow up of problems, ideas and questions about the tools provided.
I am a developer of Greasemonkey extensions to enhance the Flickr experience. All of these are open source. Some other developers in the Flickr community provide other scripts, usually open source too.
The scripts are usually standalone and could be seen as "products". However, there is no "company" behind these productions. The community is loosely centered around the Flickr Hacks group on Flickr, but there is no real lead or centralisation in the effort.
I was wondering if I could register "Flickr Greasemonkey Hacks" as a company on Satisfaction and add individual scripts as product. To allow a simpler follow up of problems, ideas and questions about the tools provided.
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Inappropriate?Sure, you can this as an Organization. Since you're making things that improve other products and services your presence and activity will be a great addition!
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Inappropriate?I think that's a great idea!
Regarding the term 'company' and 'organization' in satisfaction: We tried to pick terminology that was not too general, given that some people already have issues figuring out just what Satisfaction actually is.
Given that we try to be specific, we realize that some concepts don't fit cleanly into the vocabulary we provide, but that is fine with us. For example, OAuth runs their customer support through us, and they are in the same position as you.
Sometimes, we prevent some communities from reaching the public home page if they are *way* off in another direction, but they are still public and available for people to promote on their own. For example, someone created a Satisfaction site for Life, and started a whole bunch of topics on existence, and we created a gag community for our CEO Thor. Both of these are sites that don't really fit with the satisfaction vision, and are more like ordinary forums and so we simply refrain from putting them on the home page.
For the overwhelming majority of uses, you'll still get promoted by us. Outside of Spam sites, I can only think of a tiny few that were'nt put on the home page.
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What about a mix of the two? I am experimenting using Get Satisfaction for feedback on services on a web site aimed to help people live more sustainably. I also have a need for people to be able to ask and answer questions on topics related to sustainability, which aren' necessary tied to web site products and services. For example, someone could ask questions about composting, or post information on an environmental issue important to them.
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That's a fine use of the site Gerry. There wouldn't be any reason to not make it public.
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