There's a discussion on http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/38040/matlab http://discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/4363/why-does-matlab-need-a-separate-site
about moving MATLAB(r) questions from stackoverflow over to its own stackexchange site. They never did that though since they weren'y able to gain 200 committed developers, 100 of which with a notable score on another stackexchange site. I suspect this will be a though call for FEniCS as well. An option would be to move the questions concerned with programming FEniCS (like "how do I set boundary conditions in discontinuous Galerkin?") over to stackoverflow, and leave the more substantial questions on scicomp (like "what's a good navier-stokes solver?"). I think we could make clear the difference to users. --Nico On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Garth N. Wells <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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