I don't think there's nearly enough traffic to sustain a stand-alone SE. I helped mod the Data Science SE and it's still not technically critical mass after 2 years. It would just fracture the discussion to yet another place.
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:52 AM assaf.mendelson <assaf.mendel...@rsa.com> wrote: > Sorry to reawaken this, but I just noticed it is possible to propose new > topic specific sites (http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq) for stack > overflow. So for example we might have a spark.stackexchange.com spark > specific site. > > The advantage of such a site are many. First of all it is spark specific. > Secondly the reputation of people would be on spark and not on general > questions and lastly (and most importantly in my opinion) it would have > spark based moderators (which are all spark moderator as opposed to general > technology). > > > > The process of creating such a site is not complicated. Basically someone > creates a proposal (I have no problem doing so). Then creating 5 example > questions (something we want on the site) and get 5 people need to ‘follow’ > it within 3 days. This creates a “definition” phase. The goal is to get at > least 40 questions that embody the goal of the site and have at least 10 > net votes and enough people follow it. When enough traction has been made > (enough questions and enough followers) then the site moves to commitment > phase. In this phase users “commit” to being on the site (basically this is > aimed to see the community of experts is big enough). Once all this happens > the site moves into beta. This means the site becomes active and it will > become a full site if it sees enough traction. > > > > I would suggest trying to set this up. > > > > Thanks, > > Assaf > > >
