2009/11/11 Egon Willighagen <[email protected]>: > 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...
OK - can I ask a question about BO software too? E.g. "how do I open an SDF file using the CDK?" > Egon > > -- > Post-doc @ Uppsala University > Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ > Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ > PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
