Dear all, I think it is apparent that scicomp.stackexchange is not a good place for hosting FEniCS user questions. The reasons are many: the moderators (and likely also a large group of users) think that a large fraction of the FEniCS questions posted are inappropriate (too FEniCS-specific) and our users have a hard time knowing which forum to post in (either scicomp.stackexchange or one of two mailing lists). As an example, here is a question I think is very legitimate (for FEniCS), which was very quickly closed by the moderators:
http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/7503/discontinuous-galerkin-and-boundary-conditions So we need to find another forum where all FEniCS questions and users are welcome. Which are our options? I really don't want to move back to a mailing list. Ideally, we would need a platform like stackexchange. Can we handle a fenics.stackexchange site? That would require a firm commitment from our group of core developers to actively work to grow and maintain a strong presence on the new site, as there are certain requirements on volume for setting up a stackexchange site: http://area51.stackexchange.com/ Some more references: http://meta.scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/368/what-concrete-guidance-should-we-give-to-people-asking-software-package-specific http://meta.scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/353/thoughts-comments-and-reactions-about-the-fenics-experiment http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/28815/computational-science Are there other alternatives to stackexchange? -- Anders _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
