Chris J. Karr, February 4th, 2010

As a software developer, I’ve become fond of the StackOverflow question and answer website model. Since home automation seems to be one of those subjects that has lots of twists and gotchas, I was wondering if there would be a community interested in a sponsored StackExchange site for home automation enthusiasts.

If there’s interest, I would certainly be interested in sponsoring such a site as marketing and community outreach vehicle for Audacious Software. The site would be product-agnostic and users would be free to post questions and answers about whatever hardware and software platforms that they were using. My interest in doing this stems from the fact that there’s quite a bit of home automation knowledge spread across fractured sites on the Internet and a centralized location might do wonders for helping everyone out and getting new users interested in wiring up their homes and offices to do crazy things.

If you would be interested in using such a site, please let me know by posting a comment below or sending an e-mail to chris@audacious-software.com. Also, if you’re a home automation technology developer and would be interested in sharing the sponsorship burden, I won’t turn you away. ;-)