<div>A zero-infrastructure option is to use the tag feature on StackOverflow itself. For VTK and ITK:<br>
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vtk" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vtk</a><br>
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/itk" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/itk</a><br><br>Presently these don't have much activity - it's partly a chicken/egg thing as there are only 37 and 8 followers of the respective tags. It's also a reflection of the strength of the *users mailing lists.<br>
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There is also a process to create new topical sites hosted by StackExchange on the SO platform: <br>
<a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/" target="_blank">http://area51.stackexchange.com/</a><br>They require a number of voted sample questions to hone the site focus, and a participation threshold must be reached before a site goes live (something like 50-100 subscribers).<br>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I don't think that stack
overflow forum engine is open source. </font></font><br></blockquote><br>there are several open-source clones, including: <a href="http://www.osqa.net/" target="_blank">http://www.osqa.net/</a> and <a href="https://github.com/cnprog">https://github.com/cnprog</a> - the latter powers <a href="http://qa.nmrwiki.org">qa.nmrwiki.org</a><br>
<br>-Isaiah<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Vincent Garcia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vincent.garcia@inria.fr" target="_blank">vincent.garcia@inria.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
+1<br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "David Doria" <<a href="mailto:daviddoria@gmail.com" target="_blank">daviddoria@gmail.com</a>><br>
> To: "Daniel Blezek" <<a href="mailto:Blezek.Daniel@mayo.edu" target="_blank">Blezek.Daniel@mayo.edu</a>><br>
> Cc: "Insight-users" <<a href="mailto:insight-users@itk.org" target="_blank">insight-users@itk.org</a>>, "ianl" <<a href="mailto:ilindsay@insigniamedical.co.uk" target="_blank">ilindsay@insigniamedical.co.uk</a>>, "Oldrich Svec"<br>
> <<a href="mailto:oldrich.svec@gmail.com" target="_blank">oldrich.svec@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org" target="_blank">vtkusers@vtk.org</a><br>
> Sent: Wednesday, 27 July, 2011 6:43:10 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] [vtkusers] Forum rather than a mailing list<br>
<div>> 2011/7/27 Daniel Blezek <<a href="mailto:Blezek.Daniel@mayo.edu" target="_blank">Blezek.Daniel@mayo.edu</a>>:<br>
> > +1 vote for forums and Stack Overflow.<br>
> ><br>
> > Mailing lists leave all organization up to individual users, rather<br>
> > than a<br>
> > central management location.<br>
><br>
> Another +1. Mailing lists seem archaic to me. It is only because of<br>
> gmail and threaded email handling that they are usable at all, but<br>
> forums were written with that exactly that purpose in mind.<br>
><br>
> David<br>
> _____________________________________<br>
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