Your questions will help us hone and refine our vision, and help us fill in the holes in our thinking. Lots of brains are better than one! Questions will also help us compile our FAQ+ .

Ask a Question 

1. Go to the questions list.

2. Click "add a task".

3. Type a shortened version into the field that appears. e.g. Favorite Color?

4. Click "add a description" and type the full version into the textbox that appears. e.g. What is your favorite color (and why)?

Answer a Question

Even if it's your own question, go ahead and give an answer, or any useful info that will help other people find an answer. Here's how:

1. Go to the questions list.

2. Click on the task name (the short version of the question) to see what answers are already there.

3. Click "add comment" to supply your answer or some helpful info.

The Question System

dotCity is one sense and organized inquiry into the question "How do we work together to acquire city-TLDs from ICANN?" This leads to many supporting questions, most of which will get answered in discussion threads, working group meetings, or project task lists. Others will need to be put to the whole group. That's what the questions list is for.

Especially in the early going, we need your help to spot potential issues we've missed, or to question the many assumptions and executive decisions we've made in the process of bootstrapping this community. For example:

We use the Open Plans task tracker to track our questions. Normally we use the tracker to track tasks associated with the various projects in this wiki. That means that you can find the Questions list at any time by clicking on "Tasks" in the menu at the top of the screen.

As with all of our features, we eventually want to "graduate" them to a fully-featured, user-friendly application that all of users can help with.
How can we do this better? When is it appropriate for a question to be a task, or to discuss it in a discussion board? Shouldn't we add all of these questions to the questions list? Until we can answer some of these questions, we'll stick with the system at hand.