[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] Transition to Discourse - thoughts from lurker

[David Gobbi]

Hi Paul,

As far as I understand, Kitware is running Discourse on their own server.
So even if it is bought out, Kitware can continue to use the version that
they currently have and fork/patch it as necessary.  And I'm sure that if
anyone audits the Discourse code base and finds that it is leaking
analytics to someone, Kitware would be happy to plug the leak.

In any case, there's plenty of analytics that companies can do based on
public mailing lists, and I don't think a public forum is any different in
that regard unless you include confidential info in your profile.

  David


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 2:25 PM Paul Douglas Hahn <pdhahn at compintensehpc.com>
wrote:

> I realize I am not an important voice for this topic, but with
> Discourse, I can say that I anticipate termination of "real-time"
> monitoring of VTK issues that I now do with the mailing lists. I do not
> want to be on a "free" community site that is or might become oriented
> to make money of me one way or another (hidden), tracking me, etc. etc.
>
> Hmmm ... so how long will it take Microsoft to come in and buy Discourse
> just like they did with Github? And what is the relationship (if any)
> between Bloomberg's Discourse Analytics (www.discourseanalytics.com) and
> Discourse.org? They both have similar logos. Just wondering.
>
> Bye,
> Paul
>
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