This is a fantastic idea. Well done Egon. (I was considering myself but
somehow had failed to connect BO and SO).
I am an addict for SO and I think the rep model is addictive. I have spent
the last few eeks thinking about how it could be adopted for chemistry. FWIW
I went to areal-life SO meeting in Cambridge 2 weeks ago.
The question of availability of SW is unclear but I think we should
definitely go with what Egon has set up. I had seen wider questions like:
* what is a good introduction to Lewis structures?
* what are the restrictions on using controlled substances int he laboratory
* why has F-F a weak bond?
* what is the accepted melting point of glycerol
* what software can build a reliable 3D model of SF4?
I'm an optimist and see this as gaining critical mass. I had thought it was
harder to get the SO software stack than it is.
I'd say - go for it and lets' invite a whole range of questions. I have a
fairly good idea of what works on SO and how it could translate to
chemistry.
We should publicize it, santize the questions to start with (we have to
moderate non-chemistry questions like - "Why did Obama win the election?"
and argumentaive like "why does program X suck?"
I think it has HUGE potential if we get it right.
Peter M-R (http://stackoverflow.com/users/130964/peter-murray-rust on SO -
you can see the Q's I have asked and answered).
A series of responsible open answers to chemistry questions could have
enormous value in chemistry.
Main question is can we run it as it scales?
We need to set up BO moderators at the start so some of us need particular
permissions.
BTW where is it mounted? SO have made quite a play about there hardware
stack - they have done it themselves.
P.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Egon Willighagen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Egon Willighagen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Oh, and questions like "Who is going to Conf Z and wants to meet up
> > for a BO dinner/lunch/wii event?" are very much encouraged too, in my
> > opinion :)
>
> "Is website/product BAR ODODOS or not?" ++
>
> (and I will now shut up...)
>
> Egon
>
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