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A vision for collaborative mathematics platforms
- June 19th, 2008
Based on the extensive discussion at the Secret Blogging Seminar on tools for long-distance collaborations, Scott Morrison writes an introduction to source control with subversion for research collaborators.
In this post, Scott also offers, quite magnanimously, to setup and host subversion repositories for any mathematician who happens to want to start collaborating using subversion.
Which, to my mind, immediately prompts the question: why stop there? I’ve had ideas about setting up a free and easy to use platform for modern communication in the mathematical community before; but they were along the lines of duplicating wordpress.com’s efforts; which isn’t really something that pays off on your efforts. Reading this, though, raised a new idea.
Why not setup a server - preferably with a university data center as backing - which dispenses free platforms with the following contents:
- Source control. Preferably option on subversion, git, mercurial - or some such selection of modern and wide-spread systems.
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