[vtkusers] Idea: move from mailing lists to Discourse

[Cory Quammen]

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.


On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I know ITK community have moved on to discourse
> (https://discourse.itk.org/) and from what I've heard, the experience
> has been great. Is it time for VTK mailing lists to move to
> Discourse as well?
>
> What are people's feelings about it?
>
> Utkarsh
>
> p.s. ParaView community seems onboard already.
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Cory Quammen
Staff R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
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