REPLY Who wants to share models (SD6866)

[SDMAIL Tom Fiddaman]

Posted by  Tom Fiddaman <tom at ventanasystems.com>

At 04:31 AM 4/4/2008, SDMAIL Bobby Powers wrote:
> I think what we need is something similar for modelers: a free service
> that allows you to quickly add a site for your model, upload it, link to
> or upload related publications, and perhaps have a small wiki about it
> where you can give people an introduction, and others can add feedback
> or share what they've done with it.  

Funny you should say that ... based on the earlier open source and 
translation conversations, I started a model wiki as an experiment. I'm 
gradually migrating my existing model library into it, in the hope that 
it'll be easier to maintain. My preliminary conclusion is that a wiki 
probably isn't where you want to end up; it's a little too unstructured. 
However, it's a great way to prototype what could ultimately be of use 
to the community. So ... have at it:

http://modelwiki.metasd.com

For now, I've allowed self-registration 
and uploads of Vensim, PowerSim, and Stella/ithink files. As long as 
things stay under control, I'm happy to host this experiment.

I think there's no reason why you couldn't conduct a collaborative 
modeling effort on sourceforge (we're using subversion (SVN) 
successfully to manage models). I suspect it would work well for a bunch 
of people working on one model, but not so well for building a library 
of models and model components.

Tom
Posted by  Tom Fiddaman <tom at ventanasystems.com>
posting date  Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:27:17 -0600