[Paraview] Idea: move from mailing lists to discourse

[Andrew]

I think that the forum is the great idea (it has been already was proposed
earlier on this list). IMHO, forum mode is more friendly and useble for
most users.

2018-03-16 18:55 GMT+03:00 Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>:

> I have collected some data on the impact of moving to Discourse for both
> the ITK and Slicer communities. Using average monthly posts as a proxy for
> community engagement, the data suggests the move has been very positive for
> increasing engagement:
>
> For ITK, monthly messages to the itk-users and itk-developers [1] list
> averaged 148 while on Discourse the average has been 297.
>
> For Slicer, monthly messages to the slicer-users and slicer-developers
> list averaged 274 while on Discourse the average has been 639.
>
> It looks like activity has doubled or more for both projects, a positive
> sign for both communities.
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
>
> [1] Messages to the ITK "community" mailing list have been excluded as
> most are copied to the itk-users or itk-developers list. I have not
> accounted for double counting where messages are sent to both users and
> developers lists.
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
> utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I know ITK community have moved on to discourse
>> (https://discourse.itk.org/) and from what I've heard, the experience
>> has been great. Is it time for ParaView mailing lists to move to
>> Discourse as well?
>>
>> What are people's feelings about it?
>>
>> Utkarsh
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