I recall that google groups was somewhat painful to use for non-googlers. --Nico
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Johan Hake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/05/2013 01:08 PM, Chris Richardson wrote: > > On 05/06/13 10:29, Johan Hake wrote: > >> On 06/04/2013 10:51 PM, Anders Logg wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:04:30AM +0100, Garth N. Wells 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. > >>> Yes, we need the commitment. To test the commitment, let's try a > >>> simple test. Who likes this idea and wants to commit to making an > >>> effort to get a proposal for a FEniCS StackExchange site approved (by > >>> posing and answering a relatively large volume of high-quality > >>> questions)? > >> I would for sure contribute, but I have a feeling we would not reach the > >> standards for our own QA at stackexchange, as Nico points out. > >> > >> We would need: > >> 200 committers in total > >> 100 committers with 200+ rep on any other site > >> + Some score based on how old the commitment scores are for the > >> committers. > >> > >> http://www.osqa.net > >> > >> looks like a nice alternative. The default design is quite ugly. > >> Probably by design, so one are more tempted to sign up and pay license > >> fees. > >> > > > > But it is not a hosted service... > > > > Google Groups also has a Q&A forum mode - that might work? > > > > https://support.google.com/groups/answer/46601?hl=en > > Looks like it could fulfill some aspects of what we need. > > SymPy is using google groups as their support forum. > > https://groups.google.com/group/sympy > > I started a dummy group just to checkout the syntax. Feel free to join > adding dummy questions at: > > https://groups.google.com/group/mydummy > > I was not overwhelmed by the interface, rather the contrary... > > Johan > > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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