[Workshop-all] Stack Exchange Site Creation

Larne Pekowsky larne.pekowsky at physics.gatech.edu
Sun Apr 8 22:10:03 CDT 2012


Hi Frank, Grayson, all,

ask.ligo.org (LSC credentials needed, sorry...) is running on
http://www.osqa.net/.  It's been working well and people in the
collaboration seem to like it.

Cheers,

						- Larne


On 12/04/08 22:36, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> Hi Grayson,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 01:00:30AM -0500, Grayson Carroll wrote:
>>  I've had a lot of great experience with stack overflow, and I think it
>> will allow many of the toolkit's more difficult and obscure nuances to be
>> much more well documented. Very useful for newcomers, and it's pretty
>> intuitive.
> 
> Concerning hosting our own: that doesn't seem to be possible using the
> stack exchange engine. However, there are also alternatives, e.g. (just
> picked one more or less randomly):
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qa/. Hosting something (freely
> available) is not a big problem, and we even have a wordpress install
> already.
> 
> So I am asking: is the concept of stack exchange what draws people or
> 'just' the concept, and a similar tool would do as well?
> 
>> Thanks again for putting on a great workshop.
> 
> Thanks to all participants to have been such a wonderful, talkative,
> interactive, critically thinking, hard working crowd of people!
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> 
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