The Professional category includes proposals in subjects like organizations, occupations, and vocations.
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What is the Checklist to start working as a Freelancer [closed]
Proposal: Self Employed and Freelance Workers
I am going to start working as a freelancer. The first thing i did is to create a Bank account and associate this account with my profesional account. ...
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How can we restrict the questions to Automationworld so that it does not conflict with others?
Proposal: AutomationWorld
As I see, the AutomationWorld includes a wider range of fields like mechatronics,signalprocesing,robotics for which already there is a proposal or site here. How can we ...
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Conflict with electrical engineering?
Proposal: AutomationWorld
Isn't this proposal too similar to Electrical engineering?
The first example question (difference between NPN and PNP transistor) seems to fit there.
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1answer
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Open source version of careers.stackoverflow
As a reaction of this question, I wanted to propose a site similar to careers.stackoverflow, but for creating, recruiting and contributing to open-source projects.
To be clear, this is not a ...
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Get active on other Stack Exchange sites?
Proposal: Digital Preservation
I was noticing that this proposal has everything it needs to get started except it's short of people with reputation on other Stack Exchange sites.
It's great that ...
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3answers
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Could this be expanded to businesses who work with ICs?
Proposal: Self Employed and Freelance Workers
The company that I work for uses independent contractors for a number of different projects. I often have questions about contracts, expectations, ...
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What happened to the law proposals?
I know that I committed to at least 2 law proposals that at the time had a decent amount of activity and support. Now I can't find them anywhere. Not in my activity, not in my searches, not in my ...
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Merging Digital Preservation & Libraries & Information Science?
Proposal: Digital Preservation
The Libraries & Information Science QA site is struggling to get enough activity.
Maybe it should be united with Digital Preservation?
They are different, of ...
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2answers
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Questions for the Healthcare Industry proposal
Proposal: Healthcare Industry
If you are having troubles coming up with your 5 questions for this proposal, take a look at the old Healthcare IT questions. They are all on-topic for this proposal as ...
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Defining the “Healthcare Industry” proposal. What can we improve upon?
Proposal: Healthcare Industry
I think it's important to discuss what we as the starting members of this community are all personally looking for. I know the questions help define what this SE will be ...
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All healthcare related area 51 proposals. Differences? Similarities? Can they co-exist? How can members of all proposals benefit?
Proposal: Healthcare Industry
Proposal: Bioinformatics
Proposal: Biomedical Informatics
Proposal: Biomedical engineering
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
Proposal: Public Health & Epidemiology
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1answer
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Looking for more info on what this SE will be about?
Proposal: Healthcare
I am an office manager at a small medical office. While searching for the right SE I first overlooked this one because the of the title "Healthcare" did not quite describe what I ...
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Similarities and Differences from Healthcare IT
Proposal: Healthcare Industry
This proposal may seem similar to the recently closed Healthcare IT stack exchange, however it is meant to be more general. Specifically, healthcare IT focused on the ...
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Pharmaceutical SE?
This idea just stroke me: isn't pharma a perfect area of knowledge to benefit from a stackexchange site? I am not into that field, but supposedly it is pretty complicated with a lot of different ...
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4answers
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Expansion of Lockpicking to Locksmithing?
Proposal: Lockpicking
Should lockpicking be expanded to locksmithing? The description can include "lockpicking, emergency entry, and lock security" which would cover the scope of lockpicking, but ...
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4answers
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Ponder DP in the abstract or confront it in the concrete?
Proposal: Digital Preservation
The questions on this site seem to fall into two categories, the abstract/definitional/policy (What it fixity? What is the necessary makeup of a DP task force?) and the ...
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What is “CoWorking”?
Proposal: CoWorking
Am I missing something here? As far as I can tell, it's just working together with other people, as in co-workers. Is there some alternate term that this is meant to get at and is ...
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2answers
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Is this proposal going to do any better than old, dead Freelance Workers proposal?
Whilst searching for something unrelated, I found Freelance Workers which died in private beta due to lack of traffic.
Will this new proposal do any better? Adding "self employed" does widen the ...
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2answers
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Meaning of Libraries & Information Science
Proposal: Libraries & Information Science
What is the meaning of Libraries & Information Science and how it's so different than Library Management?
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Privacy is not Information Security
Proposal: Privacy
A Privacy exchange was proposed in the Technology category some months back but it was misplaced. There is a growing profession revolving around privacy that expands beyond the ...
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Teaching should include Learning as well
Proposal: Teaching should also include learning and psychological learning styles. This would broaden the scope of not just teaching, but also methods teachers use to help pupils learn and employing ...
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1answer
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What is the reasoning behind the name change from “Professional Matters” to “The Workplace”?
Proposal: The Workplace
As I said in my answer to the Merge career proposals discussion, I rather liked the fact that the old name, Professional Matters implied both that the site was for Matters ...
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1answer
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Title of Library Proposal
Proposal: Library & Information Science
There has been some discussion about the naming and scope of what used to be the Libraries proposal (and is now the Library and Information Science ...
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Surely 50 users with 200+ rep on somewhere else would be enough?
Proposal: Library & Information Science
It just seems so unfair that Libraries and Information Science, with its huge number of expert committers, can't get over the line to beta.
I understand ...
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Should Gemology categorized as a science or a profession?
Proposal: Gemology
As per the title, should Gemology be categorized as a science or a profession? From a scientific standpoint it is a geoscience in line with mineralogy but contextually it tends to ...
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How would this site be different from BIOSTAR? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Successor to BioStar
Proposal: Bioinformatics
Although I like the idea of starting up a bioinformatics site. I have to ask how this site would be different from ...
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You do realize that 'Libraries & Information Science' is not the same as 'Libraries', right?
Proposal: Library & Information Science
You'd have almost been better off merging Libraries with Books.
LIS deals more with the theory of how information is organized. Now, an MLS (Master of ...
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Interlibrary loan procedures [closed]
We are currently thinking of changing our lending/borrowing procedures for ILL.
We now allow patrons 8 current requests pending/received - considering changing this to 10.
We currently do not ...
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3answers
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Is this just for private health care IT, or will questions about NHS IT be welcome? [closed]
Proposal: Healthcare IT
Given how different the UK health service (free at the point of use) is to the USA health system (left on the road side if no insurance cover). Do we need a separate site ...
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Healthcare IT: Time to try renewing your commitments? [closed]
Proposal: Healthcare IT
It looks like Healthcare IT is just missing the commitment score component of it's threshold for moving toward the beta phase. While of course the answer for part of this is ...
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What is the definition of the word **Residents** in the SE site Medicine?
The description of the given site at the moment:
Proposed Q&A site for medical students, residents, researchers, and
academics
Residents refers to many things. I want that the description ...
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0answers
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What special accomodations do cats need after spaying? [closed]
Proposals: Pets, Animal Health and Behavior
My 2 cats are being spayed today and I want to make them as comfortable as possible. What can I do to help them recover from surgery?
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Is there a Stackexchange site (or proposed site) for social media marketers?
Specifically, I am wondering if there is a stackexchange site where marketers working in social media marketing can go for information and where they can build an online reputation for their knowledge ...
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Should the Law & Legal Questions be more about theory or practice?
Proposal: Laws & Legal Questions
I really hope this site goes to Beta, but I am concerned over it's focus. Yes people need to know more about the theoretical and philosophical aspects of law, but ...
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1answer
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How can you define off topic for this? Water cooler discussion is by definition off topic
Proposal: Around the Water Cooler at the Office in a Professional Career
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Would questions asking to identify buildings from photos and descriptions be on-topic?
Proposal: Building Architecture
Would questions of this nature asked on travel SE be on-topic on architecture SE?
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Rename 'Healthcare IT' to 'Health IT' to include the IT targeting non-care aspects
I suggest a rename of 'Healthcare IT' to "Health IT".
I can see the name "healthcare IT" being unnecessarily limiting in the future because it will artificially exclude the health IT approaches to ...
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1answer
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Could Building Architecture be broadened?
Proposal: Building Architecture
This proposal is currently defined as study of the design and construction of buildings. Could it be broadened to include disciplines such as urban planning and ...
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5answers
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How to promote the Healthcare IT Site?
Proposal: Healthcare IT
Does anyone have suggestions on how to promote the site? Are there message boards in the health care IT area that we could post to? I would really like to see the site come ...
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What should be done about the career proposals? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Merge career proposals
Proposal: Professional Careers & Advice
I've already suggested that we should merge the career proposals. Since then it's all gone quiet.
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What's the water cooler?
Proposal: Around the Water Cooler
What do you mean "Water Cooler?" How isn't this already covered by other expert sites, or those questions that fill the cracks between?
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Matlab, Simulink and System Generator [closed]
Hi,
Is there any method that allows to easily use the matrix and vector operations from Matlab in order to program FPGA?
The only paradigm which comes to my mind is to write the operation externally ...
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6answers
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Successor to BioStar
Proposal: Bioinformatics
I’m not at all active in the BioStar community so I’d like people from there to comment on this discussion.
However, a lot of people in the comments of the bioinformatics ...
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1answer
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Answers for Pilots [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Answers for Pilots
Proposal: General Aviation
I posted this question in Area 51 earlier today discussing the scope of my website, AnswersforPilots.com. Hosted in a user ...
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2answers
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Please VOTE for top questions [closed]
Proposal: General Aviation
Hey everyone, just wanted to throw up a note here to see if we can coordinate our voting to get us into the next phase.
In order for a question to be considered "on-topic" ...
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3answers
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Organisation of digital libraries/deposits of research papers
Proposal: Libraries
Does the topic of the organisation of digital libraries/deposits of research papers belong to this site? (Like http://arxiv.org or http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/ for a specific ...
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2answers
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Is there value in merging the Libraries and Books proposals?
The Libraries proposal had a significant amount of activity early on, but the activity chart has been more or less flat for a long time. Many people who signed up are not active on the Stack Exchange ...
