<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">David,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am very pleased to hear this. Getting started with VTK has been a really tough learning curve, often the simplest things are very difficult to get to work (e.g. getting a picture to fill a window!). </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The users forum is great but one doesn't always get an answer.</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">ITK was actually much easier to learn, maybe there are things we can learn from them too.</font></div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Many thanks,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Richard</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div>Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 17:29:19 -0400</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">From: David E DeMarle <</span><a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">To: "</span><a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">vtkusers@vtk.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">" <</span><a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">vtkusers@vtk.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>, vtkdev</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <</span><a href="mailto:vtk-developers@vtk.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">vtk-developers@vtk.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>, Christopher Mullins</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <</span><a href="mailto:christopher.mullins@kitware.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">christopher.mullins@kitware.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>, Will Schroeder</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <</span><a href="mailto:will.schroeder@kitware.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">will.schroeder@kitware.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subject: [vtkusers] heads up: changes to vtk web site and examples</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> coming</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Message-ID:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <CANjZAi8s61gFQSE4N_riGx5mU=</span><a href="mailto:4RwH%2BhuNRwvTCaNXaKWVfpzw@mail.gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">4RwH+huNRwvTCaNXaKWVfpzw@mail.gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hey gang,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We've started cleaning up the accumulated clutter that we call the VTK wiki</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">page. With a collection of maybe twenty years' information up there we are</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">suffering more from a proliferation than a scarcity of information. Our</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">goal then is to streamline and improve the content to make it easier to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">find the important stuff and especially to get started using VTK.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">As such we have or are about to:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* change the top level wiki page from:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Deprecated_frontpage" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Deprecated_frontpage</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* remove or update old and often conflicting content (I'm looking at you</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">FAQ!).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* switch to a ParaView style download form on the webpage, where you pick</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">from drop down boxes what you want to download.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Adhere to "one set of examples to rule them all" or "there can be only</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">one set of examples". The in source VTK examples:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> ${VTKSOURCE}/Examples</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">are being updated and will eventually move to the VTK Wiki examples</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">project:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Regression test results for the wiki examples will move to the VTK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">dashboard where more developers will see them.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* the VTK web site will receive its own facelift in the coming months, like</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ParaView's recently did, for much the same reason.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you have any concerns about any of this or have some spare time and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">would like to help update the documentation and example, please let us</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">know.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">David E DeMarle</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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