[Bioc-devel] BioC on Stackoverflow et al.

Hi,

following the excellent bioc-devel at europe, I collected
some notes on one of the suggestions of the final discussion:

Because of the (chronic) lack of documentation,
and a perceived difficulty of sustaining a lively
and well-organised wiki, there was a question
whether we want to augment the existing
resources with something like stackexchange.

I checked questions tagged with R and bioc:

    7 Questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bioconductor
 2500 Questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r

    1 Question:  http://stats.stackexchange.com/tags/bioconductor
  200 Questions: http://stats.stackexchange.com/tags/r

One question would be whether to just join those platforms,
or whether to apply for a community there. That process
is described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackexchange#Site_creation_process

An alternative would be to open a community on shapado.com,
which has similar features, a lower entrance hurdle,
but is less known. Currently there are no questions
mentioning bioc on shapado.

We should also have a backup plan in mind what would happen
if any of those sites go belly-up. It seems to be possible
to extract data from stackexchange and import into a local
installation of shapado, which has an AGPLv3 license
and is developed at http://gitorious.org/

Opinions ?

Yours,
Steffen