{"id":17,"date":"2008-06-06T20:36:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T01:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/2008\/06\/06\/the-simulink-central-community\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T20:52:20","slug":"the-simulink-central-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2008\/06\/06\/the-simulink-central-community\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simulink Central Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MATLAB Central community covers a wide range of\r\nMathWorks products. After a quick glance, you might not guess there is a Simulink\/Real-Time\r\nWorkshop\/Model-Based Design sub-culture, but there is, and I\u2019m going to tell\r\nyou I stay connected to it using the Simulink newsgroup.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

CSSM - The Simulink Newsgroup<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

You may be asking yourself, \u201cWhat is Seth talking about? comp.soft-sys.matlab(CSSM)\r\nis a MATLAB newsgroup!\u201d The Simulink community is alive and well on CSSM.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The public, un-moderated Usenet newsgroup called\r\ncomp.soft-sys.matlab started in 1993. It has MATLAB in the name, but it is the\r\nright place to talk about all of our products. \u201cAll the products?\u201d you say, \u201cWon\u2019t\r\nthat be noisy?\u201d That is why I read the newsgroup with tags.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Tagging Adds Value<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

There are hundreds of posts on CSSM every day, and most are\r\non topics unrelated to Simulink. I use the MATLAB Central newsreader<\/a>\r\nto keep up to date on the newsgroup, post replies, and search. The MATLAB\r\nCentral newsreader offers an enhanced interface to the CSSM by adding search\r\n(1) and tagging(2).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"Search<\/p>\r\n\r\n

I filter the newsgroup with the Simulink tag. While reading\r\nposts, I add tags to help further classify articles. I encourage you to add\r\ntags too. Tags add value to the community! While reading through the MATLAB\r\nCentral newsreader you will see this box in the upper right corner to add your\r\nown tags.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"Add<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Clicking on the Simulink tag gives me just the Simulink newsgroup.\r\nAcross all posts on CSSM there are an interesting distribution of tags. Look\r\nat the tag cloud:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"Tag<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Notice that Simulink is a major tag used in the group.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Custom Feeds<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

You can also create custom feeds to keep track of you\r\nfavorite tags or searches. After you do a search, or click on one of the tags,\r\nthe bottom of the page contains a link to the RSS feed for that search result.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"Get<\/p>\r\n\r\n

I track my favorite feeds through the Google Reader<\/a>. When I open my Google Reader\r\nthese are the feeds I see.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"Google<\/p>\r\n\r\n

As you can see, I am not up to date on all of my feeds. Instead,\r\nCSSM comes to me via e-mail.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

E-mail Notification<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

I also use e-mail notification to stay up to date. I get\r\nabout 10 to 20 emails a day from the newsgroup. I usually just scan through\r\nthe emails and respond through the reader when I see a question I want to\r\nanswer, or a discussion on which I want to comment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Click on the \"Add To My Watch List\" link as you browse through the newsreader.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"Add<\/p>\r\n\r\n

You can then specify how often you want to receive e-mail alerts when a message matches your watch list.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Who is in this community?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

To start, I am. Here is my\r\nnewsreader profile<\/a>. Check out the threads I am watching and my favorite\r\ntags. There are many people asking questions, and others providing answers. You\r\nalso find MathWorks developers like Devdatt<\/a>\r\nor Guoliang<\/a>\r\nwho actively answer questions on the newsgroup.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Earlier this week Omur Bas<\/a>\r\nposted an answer to\r\nthis thread<\/a>. I learned about using the SimulationCommand:WriteDataLogs to\r\ncontrol when data logs show up in the MATLAB workspace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Now it\u2019s your turn<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

What discussions do you want to see on CSSM? Have you made your\r\nnewsreader profile<\/a>? Who do you recognize from the Simulink community? Leave\r\na comment here<\/a>\r\nand start a thread on the Simulink\r\nnewsgroup<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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