And we're off!

@HDE226868 hi

@RealzSlaw Hey.

i cant find a description of the site

Area 51 has the best description so far:

> Beta Q&A site for the "open science" movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all.

cool

but my point is

SE seemed to have removed the FAQ page per site

or hidden it well

which had a question that was editable by admins

like "what questions are appropriate for this SE"

Oh, that would be here:

openscience.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

ok I wish that was more visible

and obviously it needs to be edited

but I assume you cant control how visible it is

Not really.

So, I read the openscience.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic file. Do we plan to add some clarification that helps distinguish this site from open source, open data, etc.

@PatW. That will happen, but it generally happens later, once we get pro-tem mods, who can edit it.

@HDE226868 So do we expect lots of redirects to the other SE sites in the early part of the beta? Maybe that's typical...

@PatW. Not until we hit public beta.

hey folks

I'm probably ringing the same old bell, but this is awesome.

We filled up the first page with 15 questions. That's good.

Only 7 are answered, though.

Hi folks :)

@SimonW Hi!

Just answered this one: openscience.stackexchange.com/questions/37/…

11 questions with new activity since I opened the main page. That's nice :)

Hmm. My ideas for chat room names suck.

Thanks for answering my question @SimonW :)

@RealzSlaw small world man!

...

hey all, delighted to see this site created. hope it flies solidly.

Sup peeps

a brief intro. some of my main interests in open science overlap with CS and math. here are some collected refs/ highlights on that. also have several posts on the subj filed here.

& would like to share one of my fave refs, hope it gains some traction, it seems not widely cited:

amazon.com/Reinventing-Discovery-The-Networked-Science/dp/…

What's this place about?

@vzn I see.

So I can get paywalled papers here?

@0celo7 We wish. But it doesn't work like that.

@HDE226868 We wish? That would be piracy and hence illegal.

@0celo7 Well, we wish that the papers weren't under paywalls.

@0celo7 actually a large db of what papers are "open" vs those "not" would be great. or lists of journals. etc. ... just browsed question (closed) related to that.

I need that one paper where Zee calculates that one anyon thingie.

It's in that one French journal.

& in case anyone hadnt noticed, natural crosspollination with this site.