[vtkusers] [Insight-users] Forum rather than a mailing list

[Isaiah Norton]

A zero-infrastructure option is to use the tag feature on StackOverflow
itself. For VTK and ITK:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vtk
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/itk

Presently these don't have much activity - it's partly a chicken/egg thing
as there are only 37 and 8 followers of the respective tags. It's also a
reflection of the strength of the *users mailing lists.

There is also a process to create new topical sites hosted by StackExchange
on the SO platform:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/
They require a number of voted sample questions to hone the site focus, and
a participation threshold must be reached before a site goes live (something
like 50-100 subscribers).


> I don't think that stack overflow forum engine is open source.
>

there are several open-source clones, including: http://www.osqa.net/ and
https://github.com/cnprog - the latter powers qa.nmrwiki.org

-Isaiah

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Vincent Garcia <vincent.garcia at inria.fr>wrote:

> +1
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Doria" <daviddoria at gmail.com>
> > To: "Daniel Blezek" <Blezek.Daniel at mayo.edu>
> > Cc: "Insight-users" <insight-users at itk.org>, "ianl" <
> ilindsay at insigniamedical.co.uk>, "Oldrich Svec"
> > <oldrich.svec at gmail.com>, vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, 27 July, 2011 6:43:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Insight-users] [vtkusers] Forum rather than a mailing list
> > 2011/7/27 Daniel Blezek <Blezek.Daniel at mayo.edu>:
> > > +1 vote for forums and Stack Overflow.
> > >
> > > Mailing lists leave all organization up to individual users, rather
> > > than a
> > > central management location.
> >
> > Another +1. Mailing lists seem archaic to me. It is only because of
> > gmail and threaded email handling that they are usable at all, but
> > forums were written with that exactly that purpose in mind.
> >
> > David
> > _____________________________________
>
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