A few people have asked me for something more than just a mailing list for communication within the NuPIC community. I don't want to move towards a forum like phpbb, but it's true that most open source projects grow out of their mailing list after some time. There will always be crucial communication here on the mailing list, especially topical discussions, theoretical questions, and important collaboration efforts. It will probably never be replaced with another online venue. But we need to think about expansion, and especially for simple Q/A, stackoverflow makes a lot of sense.
Some of our biggest roadblocks are the technical problems facing newbies who want to build and run NuPIC within their environment. It's true that we have wiki pages set up to help out with this. But I think people will be more likely to interact on SO than update a wiki page, especially if they have knowledge to add to a given Q/A session (it makes them feel smart). Wiki edits seem anonymous, but SO is not. Our wiki is very important, and I don't want to stretch ourselves too thin with our content delivery. But I don't think encouraging people to start asking nupic questions on SO is a bad idea. Keep in mind that if all goes according to plan, questions will start being asked on SO organically as NuPIC gains in popularity. We can actually help foster this by starting to use it now, which will engage anyone already looking for answers there and encourage more questions. --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Marek Otahal <[email protected]> wrote: > Although I use SO almost daily for solving programming problems, I somehow > dont see advantage to our ML and/or > ctrl+f on a FAQ wiki page.. > Btw, the wiki has plenty of places to improve..feel free to edit it > anybody! :) > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've like the idea of StackOverflow, in fact I've looked into it in the >> past. The thing about getting a dedicated StackExchange section is that >> there needs to be ample evidence of interest first. The Area51 crew are not >> going to approve a NuPIC site without a large community of active >> supporters. I was planning on moving in this direction once we've grown a >> bit more. It's not easy to get an Area51 proposal into a SO site, for >> example, Arduino is still in the proposal stage ( >> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58150/arduino). >> >> The best place to start is on the main stackoverflow site itself. >> >> How about this... >> >> There are no questions tagged with "nupic" at this point, which is great >> because we have an empty namespace to occupy: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nupic >> >> I welcome anyone with a technical question about NuPIC to post it on >> http://stackoverflow.com with the tag "nupic". It would also be a good >> idea (at least initially) to post a link to your question on the mailing >> list until we built up enough steam on SO that it is consistently monitored >> by the community. >> >> Any volunteers? >> >> --------- >> Matt Taylor >> OS Community Flag-Bearer >> Numenta >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Mark Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A wiki is an awesome idea! Numenta, how about it? I think this is >>> something that would benefit you too. I too have been struggling to get >>> started. There is much you have to discover the hard way. >>> >>> For a Stackoverflow style of site, how about..... Stackoverflow! At >>> least initially anyway. If that is popular then we could propose a nupic >>> version at http://area51.stackexchange.com/ and get our own StackNupic. >>> I definitely agree that this style of site is much more useful than trying >>> to search mail lists. >>> >>> Let's start asking and answering questions there and see how it goes. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> On 7 November 2013 19:18, Sergey Cleftsow <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everybody! >>>> >>>> It seems that as the community grows the problem of being a good >>>> documentation and stuff which can help to learn NuPIC becomes more >>>> important. For example I personally resolved my problem of installing >>>> NuPIC just accidentally by getting an advice from one of friends. The >>>> solution was buried in depth of many posts and I didn’t aware about >>>> it. Now I have a very useful experience which could help other >>>> members. But where should I publish it to make it easy to get by them? >>>> If I write to the mailing list it may be the same case. Of course >>>> there are other great places — wiki, Youtube channel, but they have >>>> own limitations. >>>> >>>> So here is an idea to build some kind of a learning center (let’s call >>>> it “NLH” — NuPIC Learning Hub). Every member of community may >>>> contribute to NLH by adding own answers to questions which were asked >>>> by other members if he/she has a time and/or such a willing. Gradually >>>> those answers may form stuff for a comprehensive documentation for the >>>> NuPIC platform. It may be some single site or may be a section on >>>> Numenta.org (or some another place). Making a prototype of NLH is >>>> considered not a very sophisticated task so I can do it because >>>> web-development is my common job (of course if somebody wants to help >>>> me it will be great also). >>>> >>>> This is the idea in short. Speaking more detailed: >>>> >>>> I suggest there may be 2 main section. First is a “Documentation”, >>>> which is in essence the standard pages describing the platform, its >>>> methods, OPF and so on. Users can add comments to published stuff. >>>> There are lots of examples in the Net (consider php.net or something >>>> of this kind). Of course, the problem is that this demands enormous >>>> efforts (time in the first turn). So in order to make it much more >>>> easier there is a second sections which should look more like a >>>> Stackoverflow (of course it’s hardly to hope that it will have the >>>> same functionality from the very beginning, but I guess it isn’t >>>> necessary yet). I.e. any community member may leave own question while >>>> other members who possesses an answer may create it there. All the >>>> questions may be ranked by users who votes by a standard way (+/-). So >>>> after any question got an enough answers or rank it may be used as a >>>> basics for the “official” stuff in the “Documentation” sections. It >>>> means that Admin (Moderator and so on, there may be few of them) >>>> converts it to the article and places it in the section mentioned >>>> above. In that section may be “empty” articles, i.e. they have only a >>>> title, but have no content. However this title is a link to the page >>>> containing a question dedicated to the subject and answers added by >>>> community members (i.e. the second section). After an article being >>>> filled by stuff made of members’ answers there a link to the page >>>> which contained those answers to see the history of question will be >>>> added. >>>> >>>> So as a rule we have one of two things: an official article in the Doc >>>> section or “unofficial” page with the ranked question and answers >>>> (probably ranked also) to it. >>>> >>>> Of course, there may be lots of other interesting things and we can >>>> consider all of them after if the community will be interested by the >>>> idea. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> SY Sergey V. Cleftsow >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> nupic mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nupic mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >> >> > > > -- > Marek Otahal :o) > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > >
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