On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 18, 3:28 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've createdhttp://ask.sagemath.org (I added this to DNS an hour >> ago, so depending on where you are, you may have to wait a while), and >> will be constantly trying to convince people to use this. >> >> http://ask.sagemath.org >> >> You can easily login instantly using your OpenID, which e.g., you >> automatically have if you have a Google account. >> >> I think questions often get "lost" or missed on sage-support. The >> advantage ofhttp://ask.sagemath.orgis that: >> >> * questions are much less likely to get lost >> >> * people get some sort of explicit credit ("points") for >> answering questions >> >> * all questions get non-optionally tagged >> >> * it's easy to query to see which questions are tagged into a >> certain category >> >> * it is easy to moderate other people's answers to questions >> >> Technical notes: >> >> *http://ask.sagemath.orgis a Django application using the code >> from this project:http://askbot.org >> >> * Thus ask.sagemath.org is 100% open source, and running on our >> hardware. This is much different than >> sayhttp://stackoverflow.comorhttp://mathoverflow.net, which is closed source >> and runs on rented >> server space. >> >> * The scipy people setuphttp://ask.scipy.org/en/a while ago using >> Solace instead of askbot. I looked at the many, many options for >> community question sites, and think that today askbot is the best >> Python-based option. > > Great! > > Assuming this gains traction, we should add it to the documentation > (like the tutorial and the sagemath.org web page) soon.
Yes, definitely, and also to the frontpage and several other places on sagemath.org. Plus a link the sage notebook would be good. There are also lots of little tweaks to the http://ask.sagemath.org site that need to be made, e.g., the FAQ, the HTML title, etc. William -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
