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 already handles quite a bit...) users... I have not >> written >> > to their sites just yet but certainly this proposal is meant as a Q&A >> for >> > computing in the Python ecosystem rather than just Sage. In light of >> this, I >> >> > >> 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). >> >> > This does sound interesting. Is it targeted enough? SE seems to want > fairly well-scoped things - I don't know whether they would want something > as broad as "open source math" or "Python math". > > Probably, this is not too broad given that computational science stackexchange site exists. I still think we might succeed if enough of us commit and actively request users to use the Stack Exchange site for well focussed questions (when it becomes available). Do you think I could edit the proposal to make it somewhat more broad in this sense. What would your suggestion be towards that, in terms of wording it?
--Kannappan. > PS. I have seen a few questions about sage on math.se, stackoverflow and >> mathoverflow; so already, there are too many sites one has to follow or >> look into before being sure that a post to the mailing list is warranted. >> > > Yes, that is certainly true. One annoying thing is that on SO the "sage" > tag supposedly refers to us, but I've given up trying to remove the tag > from questions about Sagepay accounting software... I suppose in principle > we could ask about migration. That would be the ideal way to approach it, > so as to keep things in one place. > > Also, as a counter to my point about "staying OSS", both Ubuntu and Drupal > host their question/answer on SE, one even with its own domain > http://askubuntu.com/ - so this isn't a killer to other such communities. > But it should be raised, anyway. > > > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
