AskBot is one of the neatest open source programs I've seen so far. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:00 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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