Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-09-23 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 6/2/14, 11:12, William Stein wrote: In fact, as you suggest above, go one further: Python -- mathematical software Having such a site, which is like mathoverflow, but for open source math software, sounds

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-09-21 Thread Pablo Sánchez Ocal
I think an important point to be raised is that having askSage on SE, the community could benefit enormously form other users coming from StackOverflow and MathOverflow. Yes, there have been local questions and answers on those forums about Sage, but having a permanent QA page would certainly

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Niles Johnson
As I recall, the question of going with a SE site was discussed around the time that AskSage launched. As I recall, the consensus was that a fully free QA site was more consistent with the values of the Sage community. It may be that this is no longer the consensus (if it ever was). Or the

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread kcrisman
Hello Sage Users: I proposed a Sage Stack Exchange site for Sage. Please go and follow it; add example questions and vote up (down) questions that you think should be on-topic (resp. off-topic) for the upcoming site.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread kcrisman
As I recall, the question of going with a SE site was discussed around the time that AskSage launched. As I recall, the consensus was that a fully free QA site was more consistent with the values of the Sage community. It may be that this is no longer the consensus (if it ever was). Or

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread kcrisman
See also some very interesting discussions at https://www.biostars.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Niles Johnson
On Monday, June 2, 2014 9:31:30 AM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote: See also some very interesting discussions at https://www.biostars.org/ I didn't know about this QA software -- here is the source repository (MIT license): https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central Note that it's about 2 years

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, June 2, 2014 3:15:13 PM UTC+1, Niles Johnson wrote: On Monday, June 2, 2014 9:31:30 AM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote: See also some very interesting discussions at https://www.biostars.org/ https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central This looks pretty good! -- You received this

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread kcrisman
For the record, here's our rough roadmap for making AskSage maintainable again (in reverse order): * Fork latest AskBot (or other QA software) and cap number of posts per day for low-reputation users. * Optional: migrate existing questions, answers, and users to new AskBot install. Or

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Kannappan Sampath
I don't agree that we may not make a successful proposal. * Firstly, this site, if it ever becomes a reality, will subsume ask.sagemath.com alright, but not just that. This will help the entire community of GAP, PARI, Maxima, Singular, Sympy (probably also R, but cross-validated already handles

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Kannappan Sampath kntri...@gmail.com wrote: I don't agree that we may not make a successful proposal. * Firstly, this site, if it ever becomes a reality, will subsume ask.sagemath.com alright, but not just that. This will help the entire community of GAP, PARI,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Niles Johnson
On Monday, June 2, 2014 11:13:09 AM UTC-4, William wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Kannappan Sampath kntr...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I don't agree that we may not make a successful proposal. I find Karl's assessment pretty convincing, but I propose that we move discussion

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Kannappan Sampath
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:42 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Kannappan Sampath kntri...@gmail.com wrote: I don't agree that we may not make a successful proposal. * Firstly, this site, if it ever becomes a reality, will subsume ask.sagemath.com

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread kcrisman
* Firstly, this site, if it ever becomes a reality, will subsume ask.sagemath.com alright, but not just that. This will help the entire community of GAP, PARI, Maxima, Singular, Sympy (probably also R, but cross-validated already handles quite a bit...) users... I have not written

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/2/14, 11:12, William Stein wrote: In fact, as you suggest above, go one further: Python -- mathematical software Having such a site, which is like mathoverflow, but for open source math software, sounds attractive (if such a thing does not already exist). Related:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread kcrisman
As another point of information, just one I forgot to mention earlier, after enough people follow it, it moves to the commitment phase - where new questions are not asked or answered, as I understand it (?) The commitment score is the minimum of three scores: % out of 200 committers

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Kannappan Sampath
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:18 PM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: * Firstly, this site, if it ever becomes a reality, will subsume ask.sagemath.com alright, but not just that. This will help the entire community of GAP, PARI, Maxima, Singular, Sympy (probably also R, but cross-validated

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-02 Thread Thierry
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 05:56:35AM -0700, Niles Johnson wrote: As I recall, the question of going with a SE site was discussed around the time that AskSage launched. As I recall, the consensus was that a fully free QA site was more consistent with the values of the Sage community. +1 On

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-01 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-06-01, Kannappan Sampath kntri...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sage Users: I proposed a Sage Stack Exchange site for Sage. Please go and follow it; add example questions and vote up (down) questions that you think should be on-topic (resp. off-topic) for the upcoming site.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Stack Exchange Site

2014-06-01 Thread Kannappan Sampath
Hi Dima, The major issue has been one of maintenance IMHO. For example, the ask.sagemath site had an outage owing to the massive spamming! These issues are neatly handled in the Stack Exchange network. -- Kannappan, On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Dima Pasechnik dimp...@gmail.com wrote: On