Re: Is this group dead?

On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 12:42:16 PM UTC-7, Nicola wrote:
> Back on topic, maybe an initiative to host a more accessible,
> web-based, platform (e.g., https://github.com/discourse/discourse),
> might help gather more people and revive discussions.
>
> IMHO, for that to work, two conditions should be satisfied:
>
> 1) it should be promoted by a reputable institution (say, a university);
> 2) it should be given suitable publicity, say in database conferences,
> in other mailing lists, as footnotes in call for papers, ...
>
> Personally, I wish I could read (and post to) online discussions where
> the authors of the scientific papers I read are involved.
>
> I don't know how much interest or motivation there is, though.
>
> Nicola

I think LTU-style discussion group would have chance to survive. Hosted on some modern medium, of course. LTU is essentially multi-author blog with comments, so the question is how many people do we have which volunteer reviewing papers, or, posting abstracts, at least to stimulate discussions? On, LTU, I counted at least 3. Received on Fri Apr 08 2016 - 18:08:51 CEST