<div dir="ltr"><div>Moved this discussion to a new thread.</div><div><br></div><div>Berk,</div><div><br></div><div>I think we need to reach out to potential developers. Especially those</div><div>outside of Kitware(and their paying customers) and the long term VTK</div>
<div>developers outside Kitware. Those communities can adapt to anything.</div><div>We need to focus on is how can we can attract new developers. In the</div><div>past, new processes were adopted and adapted by Kitware, their</div>
<div>customers and hard core VTK developers with very little input from the</div><div>broader community of potential developers.</div><div><br></div><div>ITK is going through the same issues but addressing the issues not</div>
<div>through process change. They are looking at outreach and better</div><div>documentation of the current process. Matt McCormick at Kitware has</div><div>been leading this effort.</div><div><br></div><div>I think there are lots of non-process improvements possible. But I</div>
<div>don't have a silver bullet for attracting new developers. Perhaps VTK</div><div>is too old school for today's developers. Stuck with an old</div><div>architecture, old graphics architecture, old and complex languages. I</div>
<div>honestly don't know what the root causes are. If we only include the</div><div>old-timers in theses discussion then we will not attract a younger set</div><div>of devleopers.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div>
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