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I proposed a Q&A site for Sage and all its subcomponents viz. GAP, Pari, Singular, Sympy, ... on Area51 here. I thought many mathematicians here who use Sage in their research and teaching here might be interested in such a site especially because questions related to software aspects are off-topic here.

Here is the Area 51 proposal: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/70511/sage

Please go and follow it if you're interested; add example questions and vote up (down) questions that you think should be on-topic (resp. off-topic) for the upcoming site.

/p/s/ I posted to meta.math also on the grounds that asking for explicit software help (non-mathematical questions pertaining to Sage or its subcomponents) is considered off-topic.

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    $\begingroup$ Are you coordinating with William Stein? Are you aware they already have a Q&A site, running on a open source analogue of StackExchange? $\endgroup$
    – Kim Morrison Mod
    Commented Jun 4, 2014 at 22:18
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    $\begingroup$ @Scott: Yes, I am aware that we already have a Q&A for sage. The aim of this site is to provide user-support for Sage and ALL its subcomponents under one umbrella. Also, we have had trouble maintaining the askbot site recently; at the moment, not all users can post to it, for example (there is a karma/rep barrier to prevent spamming). This idea came about in a recent trac ticket on which William commented with a +1 and he is now following the proposal; so I guess he is aware. I will be in touch with him about this soon. $\endgroup$
    – knsam
    Commented Jun 4, 2014 at 22:27
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    $\begingroup$ Thanks, @knsam. Without that context I was worried the proposal was inappropriate. $\endgroup$
    – Kim Morrison Mod
    Commented Jun 5, 2014 at 7:38
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    $\begingroup$ The proposal has now been deleted, I think due to inactivity before reaching the threshold for activation. $\endgroup$
    – David Roberts Mod
    Commented Jul 31, 2015 at 6:29

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