[open-science] Website relaunch: OpenScience Q&A has become ask-open-science.org

Fri Mar 2 11:46:12 UTC 2018

Dear all,

good news: The Open Science questions & answers website finally got a
memorable and speaking domain name: https://ask-open-science.org/
Special thanks to those of you who suggested this as a next step to
make this site more popular and attractive.

Accordingly, it is no longer called “Open Science Q&A” but
“Ask Open Science”. We even have a Twitter account now. Please spread
the news by retweeting this message: https://twitter.com/askopenscience/status/969235073563332609
Or ask questions. If you like, you can provide your own answer.
We want this site to become a lively communitiy of open science
practitioners and students as well as a great knowledge collection.

As before, this website is hosted by Bielefeld University Library, and
they also pay the domain fees for the foreseeable future. So this is a
stable resource you can link to or include in teaching materials.
Please do!

Cheers,
Christian Pietsch & the Ask Open Science volunteer admins and mods

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 11:38:19AM +0200, Christian Pietsch wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> some of you know that the effort to establish an Open Science
> community within the StackExchange network failed – the private beta
> phase did not develop enough activity, or whatever.
> 
> Daniel Mietchen and I found this regrettable and decided to revive the
> beta site that had already amassed about 100 questions and lots of
> answers. And more than 300 users! Towards the end of August, all of
> this had disappeared from the Web except for one XML dump containing
> all of this.
> 
> The admins of PysicsOverflow.org then helped us import the dump
> into the free and open source Question2Answer software. You can see
> the result here <https://openscience.uni-bielefeld.de/>.
> 
> We have a stable technical infrastructure: For the first three years,
> the site will be sponsored by the new CONQUAIRE project (Continuous
> quality control for research data to ensure reproducibility,
> <http://conquaire.uni-bielefeld.de/>). After that, Bielefeld
> University Library will ensure permanent operation.
> 
> The current status is that we have 30 active users (some new, others
> have reclaimed their imported profile). Of these, three act as admins
> and another three act as moderators. More volunteers are welcome!
> 
> What we now need most is users: whether anonymous or registered,
> please contribute questions, answers, comments or votes! We want this
> to become a knowledge resource on all aspects of Open Science and Open
> Research – much like a wiki, but in a Q&A site like this one, good
> questions and answers will be more visible than less useful
> contributions. Please link the site from your websites!
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian

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  Christian Pietsch · https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8778-1273
  LibTec · Library Technology and Knowledge Management
  DFG projects CONQUAIRE and ORCID DE
  Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany
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