A SALib discussion forum?

[willu47]

We've got a great community building up around SALib and perhaps we should talk more?

Github have announced Discussions which seems to offer standard chat features with several others under development.

Alternatives include Slack, Gitter, etc.

[tupui]

I would suggest looking into Scientific Python: https://scientific-python.org

We have a self hosted discuss server at https://discuss.scientific-python.org and we are happy to welcome any communities (I am personally very interested here as you know 😃). Practically speaking I can create a SALib tag. Then you can post in any category using your tag (or any combination). As we grow this hopefully will increase chances of cross project interactions.

After the SciPy conference, we sparkle a lot of interest from other large groups such as Pangeo. The big advantage for you is that you would not have to manage the server configuration etc.

[ConnectedSystems]

Tagging @sahin-abdullah on this as well.

@tupui I understand you two have, or intend to have, a discussion around these things. Please feel free to keep me in the loop.

[tupui]

@ConnectedSystems we did not discuss this topic, only the theme part.

Let me know if you want me to add a tag for Scientific Python's discuss.

I did not mention it above, but instead of Slack we also have discord https://discord.com/invite/vur45CbwMz

All that might be easier for you than having yet another thing to maintain. 😃

[ConnectedSystems]

Hi @tupui

Abdullah and I had a look around the Discord community for Scientific Python, looks very nice and I think its a good fit for what we want.

Some questions:

• We're wondering would we be able to get admin rights to assign roles or is this something someone else needs to do.
• Is it possible to set up some voice/video channels to allow quick ad-hoc group meetings
• I guess the community and the SALib channel would be completely public and anyone can join/leave as they wish?
• I'm entertaining the idea of setting up a discord bot to point people to relevant places in the documentation

Thanks!

[tupui]

• We're wondering would we be able to get admin rights to assign roles or is this something someone else needs to do.

In general we want to give up as many responsibilities as we want, which means having responsibilities to do something for other projects as well. So sure if you want to be active, we have many roles to fill in 😃 At the moment we have one moderator and this seems to be enough given the low volume of conversation.

• Is it possible to set up some voice/video channels to allow quick ad-hoc group meetings

Sure, happy to set this up. So far no-one asked for it.

• I guess the community and the SALib channel would be completely public and anyone can join/leave as they wish?

On discord, we actually would prefer to not have specific channels per project. We are still discussing all that, but we are trying to remove barriers between different projects and communities. At the moment it's really an open chat with general channels as you've seen. On the NumPy's slack or in this discord, it's really not an issue so far because the volume of chat is quite low. We are keeping an eye on how this evolves and what the whole community wants so that we adjust channels, etc. We are going to have a summit meeting about all that by the way, you're more than welcome to join: https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/domain-stacks-summit/329/3

Still we can create a private channel with just a few people having access. We have a few private channels like that already. We are not sure about how to move forward. In general it's a good thing to try to have everything in the open. Hence, we are thinking about read only channels where only some people can post, but everyone could read. This really helps with the transparency of projects which is a real concern for large projects (and smaller ones if you want to grow and show good faith).

For project specific things, discuss is well suited as we can add as many tags as we want and people can subscribe to tag, you can also send an email pointing to the tag so that it feels like a mailing list. All that is great for discussions you want to keep around and also it's indexed by search engines.

The whole setup is really moving fast and changes constantly as people ask for things. You are more than welcome to join the discussions, there is also a feedback channel.

• I'm entertaining the idea of setting up a discord bot to point people to relevant places in the documentation

Interesting idea, but would mean quite some maintenance and also a server to host and run the bot.

[willu47]

I vote for completely open. The forum will be for discussing aspects of the project which should be public anyway as a way to engage and inform. If we really need to discuss something in private we can revert to email.

[tupui]

There is actually a new discord space for SA in general https://discord.gg/J6bQDW8q

Takuya and I are already there (even Andrea Saltelli joined 😅) It's still a small group, but everyone is very much interested with SA.

I am working on a project with Mariia, the admin and she gave me a moderator status. There could be a place for Softwares in SA there.

What do you think about using that?

On a similar topic, we have quite some questions in the tracker. Did you think about using GitHub discussions instead? We could move quite some issues into discussions.