2009/11/11 Egon Willighagen <egon.willigha...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> The question of availability of SW is unclear but I think we should >> definitely go with what Egon has set up. I had seen wider questions like: >> * what is a good introduction to Lewis structures? >> * what are the restrictions on using controlled substances int he laboratory >> * why has F-F a weak bond? >> * what is the accepted melting point of glycerol >> * what software can build a reliable 3D model of SF4? > > I suggest we avoid general chemistry questions... there are a few > options for that around, to keep the noise down. I am not worried > about having a too small focus, as all questions and answers are > likely properly indexed by Google/Bing/Yahoo anyway... > >> I'm an optimist and see this as gaining critical mass. I had thought it was >> harder to get the SO software stack than it is. > > Hardest part was to make the Blue Obelisk banner :) > >> I'd say - go for it and lets' invite a whole range of questions. I have a >> fairly good idea of what works on SO and how it could translate to >> chemistry. > > But ODOSOS oriented. > >> We should publicize it, santize the questions to start with (we have to >> moderate non-chemistry questions like - "Why did Obama win the election?" >> and argumentaive like "why does program X suck?" >> >> I think it has HUGE potential if we get it right. > > I am hoping so too. > >> Peter M-R (http://stackoverflow.com/users/130964/peter-murray-rust on SO - >> you can see the Q's I have asked and answered). >> >> A series of responsible open answers to chemistry questions could have >> enormous value in chemistry. > > Well, if they include a description on how to reproduce those answers > with ODOSOS tools, I'm fine with it. > >> Main question is can we run it as it scales? >> We need to set up BO moderators at the start so some of us need particular >> permissions. >> BTW where is it mounted? SO have made quite a play about there hardware >> stack - they have done it themselves. > > Right now it is hosted by StackExchange. I will look into the other things. > > Another question would be... should I enable Google Adsense? To > trigger some revenue to be invested in a charity fund promoting > ODOSOS? Or pay for the StackExchange bill if things get out of > beta...?
I would focus on building the community first, but I have no objection in principle. > Egon > > -- > Post-doc @ Uppsala University > Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ > Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ > PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
