<div dir="ltr">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:<div><br></div><div>For ITK, monthly messages to the itk-users and itk-developers [1] list averaged 148 while on Discourse the average has been 297.</div><div><br></div><div>For Slicer, monthly messages to the slicer-users and slicer-developers list averaged 274 while on Discourse the average has been 639.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like activity has doubled or more for both projects, a positive sign for both communities. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Cory</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">[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.</div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div id="gmail-:5mb" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0" style="background-color:rgb(241,241,241);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:20px"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="background: url("//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/ellipsis.png") no-repeat; height: 8px; opacity: 0.3; width: 20px;"></div></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com" target="_blank">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Folks,<br>
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I know ITK community have moved on to discourse<br>
(<a href="https://discourse.itk.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://discourse.itk.org/</a>) and from what I've heard, the experience<br>
has been great. Is it time for VTK mailing lists to move to<br>
Discourse as well?<br>
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What are people's feelings about it?<br>
<br>
Utkarsh<br>
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p.s. ParaView community seems onboard already.<br>
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