[vtkusers] Idea: move from mailing lists to Discourse

[Bill Lorensen]

Makes sense.

On Mar 16, 2018 8:56 PM, "David Thompson" <david.thompson at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> Discourse is open source software; you can deploy your own discourse
> server. However, the discourse developers will also _host_ your discourse
> forum on their servers if you are open source on github.
>
>     David
>
> > On Mar 16, 2018, at 23:51, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > According to:
> >
> > https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-
> hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/
> >
> > Discourse is only available to GitHub hosted projects. VTK is a gitlab
> repo.
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing something...
> >
> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Matthew Brett <
> matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Cory Quammen <
> cory.quammen at kitware.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Those numbers are very surprising to me.   Can you say whether you
> >>> have seen a near doubling of the amount of people mailing the list /
> >>> using the interface?  Or are the same people sending more emails /
> >>> posts?   Are they the same length?  I ask, because one of the nice
> >>> features of email is that, typically, people put more work into
> >>> writing an email than they do a chat in, say, Gitter, and this makes
> >>> the content more substantial and less distracting.
> >>
> >>
> >> I did not analyze the posting activity at that level of detail, but
> those
> >> are interesting questions. I do not have access to the number of users
> of
> >> the mailing lists to compare before and after the transition to
> Discourse.
> >>
> >> With regard to message length, note that Discourse is a forum, not a
> group
> >> messaging service like Gitter or Slack, so I would anticipate that
> messages
> >> would largely be similar to what people post on the mailing list (for
> better
> >> or worse). I have sampled some discussions on
> >> https://discourse.itk.org/latest and https://discourse.slicer.org/
> latest and
> >> this seems to be the case - I invite you to take a look to see if you
> agree
> >> with that assessment.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Cory
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cory Quammen
> >> Staff R&D Engineer
> >> Kitware, Inc.
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Powered by www.kitware.com
> >>
> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
> >>
> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the VTK FAQ at:
> >> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
> >>
> >> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=vtkusers
> >>
> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> >> https://vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Unpaid intern in BillsParadise at noware dot com
> > _______________________________________________
> > Powered by www.kitware.com
> >
> > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/
> opensource/opensource.html
> >
> > Please keep messages on-topic and check the VTK FAQ at:
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
> >
> > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=vtkusers
> >
> > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> > https://vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/attachments/20180316/d5dc37d2/attachment.html>