On 4 June 2013 07:48, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I think it is apparent that scicomp.stackexchange is not a good place > for hosting FEniCS user questions. The reasons are many: the moderators > (and likely also a large group of users) think that a large fraction > of the FEniCS questions posted are inappropriate (too FEniCS-specific) > and our users have a hard time knowing which forum to post in (either > scicomp.stackexchange or one of two mailing lists). As an example, > here is a question I think is very legitimate (for FEniCS), which was > very quickly closed by the moderators: > > http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/7503/discontinuous-galerkin-and-boundary-conditions > > So we need to find another forum where all FEniCS questions and users > are welcome. >
I agree that http://scicomp.stackexchange.com is not suited to our purpose, and it's unclear what should or shouldn't be posted there. > Which are our options? I really don't want to move back to a mailing > list. Ideally, we would need a platform like stackexchange. > Agree. > Can we handle a fenics.stackexchange site? That would require a firm > commitment from our group of core developers to actively work to grow > and maintain a strong presence on the new site, as there are certain > requirements on volume for setting up a stackexchange site: > I suspect that we can, if we get a significant commitment from core developers and experienced users to (a) answer questions and (b) set the tone by posing good questions, especially at the start. > http://area51.stackexchange.com/ > > Some more references: > > http://meta.scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/368/what-concrete-guidance-should-we-give-to-people-asking-software-package-specific > > http://meta.scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/353/thoughts-comments-and-reactions-about-the-fenics-experiment > > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/28815/computational-science > > Are there other alternatives to stackexchange? > I'm not aware of any hosted alternatives. I have a very strong preferences for a hosted service over running our own system on fenicsproject.org. Garth > -- > Anders > _______________________________________________ > fenics mailing list > [email protected] > http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
