On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 suggest we avoid general chemistry questions... there are a few options for that around, to keep the noise down. I am not worried about having a too small focus, as all questions and answers are likely properly indexed by Google/Bing/Yahoo anyway... > 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. Hardest part was to make the Blue Obelisk banner :) > 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. But ODOSOS oriented. > 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. I am hoping so too. > 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. Well, if they include a description on how to reproduce those answers with ODOSOS tools, I'm fine with it. > 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. Right now it is hosted by StackExchange. I will look into the other things. Another question would be... should I enable Google Adsense? To trigger some revenue to be invested in a charity fund promoting ODOSOS? Or pay for the StackExchange bill if things get out of beta...? 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
