2017 Winter Project Week/UpdatingCommunityForums

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Andrey Fedorov
• Andras Lasso
• Mike Halle
• Steve Pieper
• Isaiah Norton
• The COMMUNITY

Project Description

Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
Discuss the procedure for reaching consensus and making decision for the infrastructure issues that will have effect on large number of users Consider mailing list proposal to move Slicer and possibly several related discussion forums to the Discourse platform. Discuss new community-interaction possibilities such as Gitter. Consider the long-discussed proposals to move to github hosting for the web site	Document the procedure for reaching consensus and making decision for the infrastructure issues that will have effect on large number of users Discourse Assess Discourse with broader community. Identify funding mechanism and logistics to move Slicer mailing lists to Discourse. GitHub Identify remaining action items to complete the long-awaited move of Slicer source hosting to GitHub. Web-site Organize web-site content on github Consider moving hosting to github

Background and References

• Discourse discussion / proposal on the Slicer mailing list
  • http://slicer-users.65878.n3.nabble.com/Starting-Q-A-Community-on-StackExchange-tp4031469p4031496.html
• Discussions of GitHub hosting:
  • http://slicer-devel.65872.n3.nabble.com/Slicer-binary-download-is-extremely-slow-consider-github-for-hosting-packaged-binaries-td4036985.html
• Discourse and Slack (or other group chat apps like IRC, HipChat, Gitter, etc)
• https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Labs/DocumentationImprovments
• NodeBB - like Discourse https://nodebb.org/pricing
• https://experts.feverbee.com/t/discourse-vs-nodebb/1384/6