<div dir="auto">Makes sense. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 16, 2018 8:56 PM, "David Thompson" <<a href="mailto:david.thompson@kitware.com">david.thompson@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Bill,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
David<br>
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> On Mar 16, 2018, at 23:51, Bill Lorensen <<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> According to:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.discourse.org/<wbr>2016/03/free-discourse-forum-<wbr>hosting-for-community-<wbr>friendly-github-projects/</a><br>
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> Discourse is only available to GitHub hosted projects. VTK is a gitlab repo.<br>
><br>
> Maybe I'm missing something...<br>
><br>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Cory Quammen <<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com">cory.quammen@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Matthew Brett <<a href="mailto:matthew.brett@gmail.com">matthew.brett@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi,<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Cory Quammen <<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com">cory.quammen@kitware.com</a>><br>
>>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I have collected some data on the impact of moving to Discourse for both<br>
>>>> the ITK and Slicer communities. Using average monthly posts as a proxy for<br>
>>>> community engagement, the data suggests the move has been very positive for<br>
>>>> increasing engagement:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> For ITK, monthly messages to the itk-users and itk-developers [1] list<br>
>>>> averaged 148 while on Discourse the average has been 297.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> For Slicer, monthly messages to the slicer-users and slicer-developers<br>
>>>> list averaged 274 while on Discourse the average has been 639.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> It looks like activity has doubled or more for both projects, a positive<br>
>>>> sign for both communities.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Thanks,<br>
>>>> Cory<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> [1] Messages to the ITK community mailing list have been excluded as<br>
>>>> most are copied to the itk-users or itk-developers list. I have not<br>
>>>> accounted for double counting where messages are sent to both users and<br>
>>>> developers lists.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Those numbers are very surprising to me. Can you say whether you<br>
>>> have seen a near doubling of the amount of people mailing the list /<br>
>>> using the interface? Or are the same people sending more emails /<br>
>>> posts? Are they the same length? I ask, because one of the nice<br>
>>> features of email is that, typically, people put more work into<br>
>>> writing an email than they do a chat in, say, Gitter, and this makes<br>
>>> the content more substantial and less distracting.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I did not analyze the posting activity at that level of detail, but those<br>
>> are interesting questions. I do not have access to the number of users of<br>
>> the mailing lists to compare before and after the transition to Discourse.<br>
>><br>
>> With regard to message length, note that Discourse is a forum, not a group<br>
>> messaging service like Gitter or Slack, so I would anticipate that messages<br>
>> would largely be similar to what people post on the mailing list (for better<br>
>> or worse). I have sampled some discussions on<br>
>> <a href="https://discourse.itk.org/latest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://discourse.itk.org/<wbr>latest</a> and <a href="https://discourse.slicer.org/latest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://discourse.slicer.org/<wbr>latest</a> and<br>
>> this seems to be the case - I invite you to take a look to see if you agree<br>
>> with that assessment.<br>
>><br>
>> Best regards,<br>
>> Cory<br>
>><br>
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>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the VTK FAQ at:<br>
>> <a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_<wbr>FAQ</a><br>
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