On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Noel O'Boyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice!! I looked into this before, but I thought you had to pay like
> $80 a month or so to set up one of these.

Well, it's free *as long as* the beta remains... might end tomorrow...
I have no clue... BTW, I said I could download the data, but not
entirely sure about that anymore... I see a Download tab... but does
not work... perhaps that's part of the payment plan ...

> I don't want to discourage you,

No worries :)

> but I have the impression that
> StackOverflow sites are really most useful if there is a critical mass
> of people.

Yes, critical mass helps... the more mass, the more power... not sure
if I can promote people to admin intentionally, overstepping the
reputation growth...

> How about considering the whole comp chem community rather
> than just questions about BO (like compchem.stackexchange)?

Well, this would be a nice platform to promote the ODOSOS ideas... if
we embed it in comp chem, we can't expose that message without getting
strange looks... Oh, hej, it's *them* again...

BTW, it seems the CCL list increasingly sees worried emails from
proprietary offerings, even replying when Open was explicitly asked
for :) We do seem to make an impact :)

> A rising
> tide lifts all boats so it wouldn't matter that some people would be
> asking questions about Gaussian, they would still be exposed to BO
> software and start to realise that CCL.net and QCPE may not be the
> future of compchem.

Then again, perhaps there *is* enough BO mass... looking at the
citation rate of the Blue Obelisk paper this is the case...

And unlike CCL, at this forum even Joe Scientist from Acme Pharma can
ask questions without anyone ever knowing he is interested in BO
tools...

Let's see how it goes... please make an account, add a dummy question,
asking something that is already on the wiki or so... which can be
easily answered :) and we trigger critical mass... it's not that
difficult to reach minimum useful reputation...

Egon

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