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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.
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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