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Probably a key consideration would be the ability to port the whole e-mail archive to the new platform. We don't want to start from scratch and it's better to have a limited ability to search the archives than none. Vladimir On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Guillaume Flandin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Wiktor and Megan, > > I agree that searching through the archives of the JISCMail mailing list > is far from ideal. Same thing when trying to read an archived thread. > > A few years ago, Satra Ghosh and others tried to start a > Neuroinformatics group on StackExchange > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/38069/neuroinformatics > but it didn't reach enough users to survive and, instead, under the > umbrella of INCF, they started Neurostars: > https://neurostars.org/ > building up from the popular Biostars (https://www.biostars.org/) in > Bioinformatics. See also Satra's comment here: > https://neurostars.org/t/what-happened-to-neurostars/12/4 > and this thread from the Nipy mailing list: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/neuroimaging/2015-August/000354.html > > Less about questions/answers but about storing knowledge, we also have > an SPM wiki where anyone has write permissions, but it never really took > off: > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM > We also recently started experimenting using GitBook to write > documentation/manual. > > SPM, FSL, EEGLAB, FreeSurfer, FieldTrip, etc, still currently mainly use > a mailing list for users discussions. SnPM uses Google Groups. I just > notice that Brainstorm is now using Discourse > (https://www.discourse.org/), ie the same underlying backend than > Neurostars. > > I would be curious to hear any further comments about this matter. > > Best regards, > Guillaume. > > > On 17/09/17 17:12, Megan Finnegan wrote: > > As a graduate student still trying to learn the in and outs of > neuroimaging, and SPM in particular, this is something I wish would happen. > It is very hard to find relevant threads in the mail archive and in > searching through the archives I've noticed a lot of similar questions > being asked repeatedly. I feel it would be a lot easier to make sense of > related question/answers in a thread format like Stack Exchange/Stack > Overflow. Given the strong technical backgrounds of many SPM users this is > something I was a bit surprised hadn't happened. > > > > I would love to hear insights on this topic from long time SPM listserv > users. > > > > ~Meg > > > > -- > Guillaume Flandin, PhD > Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging > University College London > 12 Queen Square > London WC1N 3BG >