On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:33 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for doing this!
You're welcome. Now ask a bunch of questions! Since I need to answer some to get some reputation points :-) William > > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:28 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've created http://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 of http://ask.sagemath.org is 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.org is 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 say http://stackoverflow.com or >> http://mathoverflow.net, which is closed source and runs on rented >> server space. >> >> * The scipy people setup http://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. >> >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washington >> http://wstein.org >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel >> URL: http://www.sagemath.org >> > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
