<p>For the last 3 years, ICML participants (Mark Reid?) have set up a site to discuss papers: <a href="http://mldiscuss.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow">2010</a>, <a href="http://www.conflate.net/icml/" rel="nofollow">2009 &amp; 2008</a>.</p>

<p>Now, we're not a discussion site, but it seems a lot of the actual "discussion" is quite amenable to a Q&amp;A format.  I wonder if we could create tags before any upcoming conferences or workshops and encourage organizers/attendees to spread the word and ask questions about papers/concepts, etc that were presented on this site.  </p>

<p>Two upcoming workshops I'm aware of are:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://lccc.eecs.berkeley.edu/" rel="nofollow">LCCC  :  NIPS 2010 Workshop on Learning on Cores, Clusters and Clouds</a></li>
<li><a href="http://morrislab.med.utoronto.ca/~anna/networksnips2010/" rel="nofollow">Networks Across Disciplines in Theory and Applications</a></li>
</ul>

<p>(Not sure how well those fit in with our mission statement, but there are also several conferences to consider in the threads started by Shane.)</p>
