The Technology category includes proposals in subjects like computing, technology, gadgets, and electronics.
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What description should this proposal have?
Proposal: Digital Fabrication
Currently this proposal has the following description:
Proposed Q&A site for people interested in making physical things using computer controlled equipment, ...
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What should we call this proposal?
Proposal: Digital Fabrication
Suggesting names
Please answer in the following form:
A Suggestion section with a name suitable for this proposal.
A Domain section suggesting a suitable domain name ...
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4answers
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Mathematica proposal has disappeared
The mathematica proposal at 89 commitments has disappeared without warning or trace.
Why has it disappeared? And why without prior warning?
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4answers
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Don't isolate GitHub (closely linked to Git) in its own site
Proposal: GitHub
Disclaimer: I am a top user on Stack Overflow for Git, GitHub, Mercurial, version-control, ClearCase, SVN,
... you name it..
Git and GitHub benefit today from the high-traffic/high ...
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6answers
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Are Stack Overflow (in language x) proposals actually viable?
There are so many proposals entitled: Stack Overflow (in language x).
Stack Overflow (in French)
Stack Overflow (in German)
Stack Overflow (in Bengali)
Stack Overflow (in Hindi)
Stack Overflow (in ...
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5answers
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How can we make the new proposal better for the reboot?
Proposal: Personal Manufacturing
The original proposal had a number of problems, but mostly the slow progression to commitment and beta left the proposal with too few active supporters.
With the ...
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4answers
1k views
Can a Stack-Overflow proposal in a different language be called xx.stackoverflow.com where xx is the language itself?
Desarrollo de Software en Español
Stack Overflow (in French)
Stack Overflow (in German)
Stack Overflow (in Bengali)
Stack Overflow (in Hindi)
Stack Overflow (in Italian)
Stack Overflow (in ...
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5answers
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No, really: what part of this isn't already on-topic for Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Laravel
Update - Laravel will not be launched as a separate site at this time
Thanks to everyone who took the time to leave feedback here. The team discussed this extensively, and we all ...
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3answers
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All version control sites are duplicates of SO
Proposal*: Git usage, Revision Control, GitHub
This has been brought up several times, yet these proposals keep getting made and not being closed. All of these questions are legal on Stack Overflow. ...
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5answers
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Why does MATLAB need a separate site?
Proposal: MATLAB
There are almost 7,500 questions about MATLAB at stackoverflow.com, so why does it need a separate site where you can no longer benefit of non-MATLAB programmer's knowledge?
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2answers
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Rationale for other.stackexchange.com
Proposal: Other
It seems rather often, and to the chagrin of many loyal Stack Exchange users and the entire community, that some questions have no place to go. See ...
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2answers
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Number of questions for qualifying in commit stage
In most sites, it is requested to have 10 questions with score 10+ (apart from followers) to move to commit stage. Today I saw that 40 questions are required to cross. Whereas, available questions ...
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3answers
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Any reason not to include Animation?
Proposal: 3D Graphics, Modeling & Applications
Would it make any sense to change the title to "3D Graphics, Modeling and Animation"? Animation happens to be one of the most complex topics in ...
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6answers
655 views
Why does SDL Tridion need its own Stack Exchange site?
Proposal: Tridion
There is currently a very active and growing Tridion Community, but not one that really uses the current Stack Overflow site. On the last try only 30 posts come up with a search for ...
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2answers
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This proposal will reach Commit more quickly if people only put 10 votes on a question
This proposal would reach the Commit Phase a lot quicker if people evened their votes out so that each question only received 10 votes.
If you've voted on a question with 20 or so votes, you can ...
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3answers
193 views
Duplicate of Electronics and Stack Overflow
Proposal: Embedded Programming and Design is a duplicate of Stack Overflow and Electronics.
Why does it need its own site?
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4answers
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SharePoint Overflow: Is this site broad enough?
Proposal: SharePoint Overflow
Is it really desirable to have a site on such a narrow subject? I mean: you can find more than 6000 questions about SharePoint on StackOverflow, and it seems to work ...
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0answers
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We don't need a site for Git
Proposal: GitHub
Of the example questions currently on the page, the following are about Git, the version control system (and therefore on-topic for either Stack Overflow or Prog.SE, as appropriate):
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7answers
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Many site proposals on project management and software development methods [closed]
Proposal: Kanban
Proposal: Software Development Process
Proposal: Agile Software Development
Proposal: IT Management
Proposal: Project Management
There are many sites which deal with ...
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2answers
711 views
What can be done to get Smugmug into Beta?
Proposal: SmugMug
Okay, I just posted a question on MSO, but I thought I'd post one here as well. What can we do to get this site into beta?
There are 3 tactics which I can see working to get this ...
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4answers
239 views
Ridiculous Outcome for 3D Graphics site proposal
I can't believe this site wasn't given a chance in public beta. A domain that has millions of active participants, that is highly specialized and has tons of people who struggle day-in-day-out with ...
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1answer
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How can we get people who follow a proposal in another language to also vote for questions?
Propuestas:
Stack Overflow in Spanish
Stack Overflow (in French)
Stack Overflow (in German)
Stack Overflow (in Bengali)
Stack Overflow (in Hindi)
Stack Overflow (in Italian)
Stack Overflow (in ...
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2answers
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Laravel has a lot of native/unique functionality irrelevant to the rest of php
I think Laravel needs it's own area because it has so much built in native functionality that is entirely unqiue to Laravel and especially Laravel 4.
Eloquent / Fluent ORM
Artisan Command Console
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3answers
584 views
How is the Laravel proposal different from Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Laravel
Does the Laravel proposal really deserve its own Q&A site? According to the FAQ, a Stack Exchange Q&A site should be subsumed by another if "Almost all X questions are ...
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1answer
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Translated Stack Overflow
There are quite a lot of proposals that want to provide a Stack Exchange site in another language. None of these sites seem to have gone very far into the commitment phase and there are a number of ...
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1answer
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Could the definition for the SharePoint proposal be broadened?
We would like to move SharePoint Overflow to Stack Exchange via the Area 51 process. This proposal matches our site the best, however it describes a developer-only site. We are only interested in ...
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2answers
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Can we merge Telephony, Telecommunications to 'ProtocolStack'
Proposal: ProtocolStack = Telephony + Telecommunications + BT + NFC + GNSS/GPS + WiFi
,
My suggestion is having a StackExchange website specifically for connectivity domain concepts and standards. ...
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1answer
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Please vote for good example questions!
Proposal: Laravel
Please help define this proposal by creating good example questions and voting for the ones you think are good. I believe that if we are able to define what Laravel should be about, ...
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2answers
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A proposal only for newbies?
Proposal: Freshers
Who will be the experts on this proposed site?
StackOverflow already works for beginners. Is there a need to isolate them to a separate site?
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1answer
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Unable to follow sites that have started private beta
I would like to be able to follow sites that have already started private beta, so that I get a notification in the mail when they are open to the public; as well as it appears in my profile.
Why is ...
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votes
1answer
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How do we draw the line between E-readers and general purpose tablets?
Proposal: E-books and E-book Readers
I'm going to assume that this site won't be a clearing house for any question on any device that one might read a book on. Questions on reading apps are likely ...
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2answers
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Closed AI project
About a year ago the AI site was launched and closed after a short few days.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6607/artificial-intelligence
I'd say the general reason is that we simply ...
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1answer
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How can we enourage our committers to be more active elsewhere in the Stack Exchange?
Proposal: Tridion
As we already have more or less enough committers, the following phases rely on
Enough people with at least 200 rep on 1 other SE site
A smaller number of people who are active ...
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1answer
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How can we get this proposal out of commitment and into beta?
Proposal: Personal Manufacturing
At the moment, there is a relatively strong interest in this proposal (246 of 200 committers in total) however there is still too little interest from established ...
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4answers
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Is the name the reason why attention is lacking?
Proposal: Repurpose
This proposal was made because of the confusion of the term "hacker" and narrowed it down to just the repurposing definition of hacking, not the cybersecurity one. We cannot use ...
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2answers
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Ne kadar Türkçeleştirmeliyiz?(How far should we translate into Turkish?)
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Turkish)
Sizce kullandığımız araçlar, teknolojiler vs. ile gelen terimleri, sözcükleri ne kadar Türkçeleştirmeliyiz? Ne zaman, nerelerde dur demeliyiz kendimize? Ana ...
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1answer
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Why isn't there a general technology stack exchange site?
So I've been trying to ask a question about cellphone towers. Below. This question currently has no home. It's not a programming question (Stack Overflow), it's not related to computing (Super User), ...
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Shall we merge Theoretical and Applied Robotics, Lego Mindstorms Robotics and Robotics research? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Developing a unified robotics proposal
Proposals: Theoretical and Applied Robotics, Lego Mindstorms Robotics, Robotics research
For some months, a question was asked: ...
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1answer
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Stack site for “Office Suite” questions
I'm a user of Stack Overflow and also loosely follow Stack UX, Programmers, Gaming, and SuperUser. I've looked all over the place however for a Stack Site where I should ask Office Suite questions. I ...
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RE: Possible duplicate of Stack Overflow
My reading of the question "Why has a proposal for Zend Framework been closed?" is that if there's a community demand for the site, then it's okay for a sub-topic to become it's own site.
What's not ...
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A general stack exchange site for open source softwares
I am great fan open source technology
Unfortunately I cant find any stack exchange dealing with this
So i would like a new stackexchange for it ,
for the developers and users of open source apps to ...
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We have 35% ==> How do we get to 100% and private beta?
Proposal: Signal, Image & Video Processing
The signal, image and video processing site proposal has just reached 35% (75 commitments). In order to move the site forward, we need another ~ 200 ...
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4answers
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Scope of Cryptography proposal overlaps with other existing sites
Proposal: Cryptography, CS Theory, IT Security
I am failing to understand the scope of this proposal. The comments like these:
Since this site was not merged with the security.stackexchange.com ...
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3answers
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Please support this proposal as a means to split robotics from the Electronics site [closed]
Proposal: Robotics research
As an electrical engineer, I have played with robots, and I can help a lot of people who have simple robotic questions revolving around electronics, which are widely used ...
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2answers
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What is the relation between hacking and security.stackexchange.com?
As far as I understand the proposed questions, the legal parts (learning, pentesting, etc.) are all on topic on security.stackexchange.com. For the clearly illegal parts of breaking into systems ...
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How is Product Management different from Project Management?
Proposal: Product Management
I expect this question will get asked often. What ultimately differentiates a team created to launch a product, versus one organized around a project with the goal of ...
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Would we allow discussions on Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Proposal: Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
I think an important thing for us to discuss is if this site allows discussion; or if it's just a straight Q&A like some other sites. For example: If someone ...
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2answers
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Could this be expanded to cover version control systems in general?
Proposal: GitHub
I feel like if this site were to become a full-fledged Q&A site, there would a major problem:
Limited Quantity of Questions
Now Github as a topic is relatively modest, because ...
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1answer
187 views
Promoting Stack Overflow in German
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in German)
As the title already says, what can we do, to promote this proposal, so we get more commitments? Stack Overflow (in Turkish) already completed the commitment ...
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5answers
396 views
What's wrong with EE?
Proposal: Arduino
What's wrong with the Electrical Engineering site? Arduino is supported there.
