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

mathilde.merle mathilde.merle at laposte.net
Thu Jul 28 05:33:23 EDT 2011


Ok for an open-source forum ! It would be easier to find previous messages in different categories.

Mathilde

> Message du 27/07/11 22:38
> De : "Isaiah Norton"
> A : "Insight-users" , vtkusers at vtk.org
> Copie à :
> Objet : Re: [Insight-users] [vtkusers] Forum rather than a mailing list
>
> 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  wrote:
> +1
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Doria" 
> > To: "Daniel Blezek" 
> > Cc: "Insight-users" , "ianl" , "Oldrich Svec"
> > , 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 :
> > > +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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