# Communities / "SlicerVerse"

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40>\
**Category:** Forum and website feedback\
**Created:** [April 9, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40 "2017-04-09T05:07:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/1 "2017-04-09T05:07:50Z")

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> Beatriz:  
> Will we be able to create subforums for the SlicerVerse?

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> @lassoan  
> Categories seem to be there most suitable way of creating separate discussion spaces for subcommunities.

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/2 "2017-04-09T05:12:50Z")

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I created a Communities category with “SlicerCMF” underneath it, as a demo/test:

[https://discourse.slicer.org/c/communities/slicercmf](https://discourse.slicer.org/c/communities/slicercmf)

Other than a handful of existing communities who have/had other forums, I think we should be judicious with category creation, especially at the top level (don’t want it to be overwhelming/confusing). We can use tags freely and observe if any eventually need separate categories.

Also: the sub-categories could be customized with images to make it feel more welcoming…

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**Author:** ![ljod](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ljod/32/652_2.png) [@ljod](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ljod)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/3 "2017-04-09T17:52:44Z")

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Sounds good to me. So we can decide later if we need a dmri category. Thank you Isaiah for setting this up!

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/4 "2017-04-10T12:44:21Z")

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This is great, thank you! We will need a SlicerSALT category too.

For SlicerCMF, we have a[google site website](https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/dentistry-image-computing/) but no forum so we will be starting a user-base from scratch.

For SlicerSALT, we have a large user-base in our [NITRC forums](https://www.nitrc.org/forum/?group_id=308). I would like to start migrating this user-base to discourse, but I know there will be resistance and it will take a bit of time. Any suggestions on how to go around this apart from saying “we are now here”?

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/5 "2017-04-10T14:04:51Z")

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Ok, I created SlicerSALT and added you to the moderator group so I think you can now edit the settings/header.

> [@bpaniagua](#):
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> Any suggestions on how to go around this apart from saying “we are now here”?

Make an announcement, wait a few days, then turn off the mailing list! 🎃 (well, set to read-only mode so people can still read the archives). If you have a decent # of subscribers it is probably worth sending a summary digest to the old mailing list (no-reply) for a while so that people see signs of life – that’s what I’m planning to do for the main Slicer lists.

I think the email interaction mode can take a little tweaking to get the way you want, but otherwise the user experience is so much better on Discourse that I hope people are generally happy to migrate.

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/6 "2017-04-10T16:13:54Z")

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Yes, those are good ideas! We are going to wait anyways until the new SlicerSALT website and SPHARM extensions are ready to share.

> If you have a decent # of subscribers it is probably worth sending a summary digest to the old mailing list (no-reply) for a while so that people see signs of life – that’s what I’m planning to do for the main Slicer lists.

What do you mean by that? Sending a digest of the discourse forum to the old forum for a while?

Thanks,  
Bea

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/7 "2017-04-10T16:17:38Z")

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> [@bpaniagua](#):
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> What do you mean by that? Sending a digest of the discourse forum to the old forum for a while?

Yeah, exactly. There is a digest mode where it will summarize all the activity, if any, on the list or in a given category (I think) for a set time-period, and we can set up a dummy account which would mail that digest to the old lists. I’ll try it out once we are ready to move the main lists, and report back.

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/8 "2017-04-10T16:19:43Z")

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Yeah, please do! Also, is it possible to add multiple moderators to a community? Can we add the user hina-shah as another moderator in SlicerSALT?

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/9 "2017-04-10T16:45:52Z")

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[Discourse doesn’t support category-specific moderators yet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-1-rfc), and, unfortunately, the number of staff in the Standard plan is limited to 5 – which we reached already…

I thought that 5 number only counted admins, but it doesn’t really seem like an issue: looking at the permissions for [“Trust Level 4”](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924), it grants basically all necessary privileges (edit, close, split/move/pin topics, etc.) for management. There’s only a few things that TL4 can’t do compared to Moderator, like banning users. I don’t think this will matter much in practice.

So I think we should:

- give community moderators TL4 as needed (@hina-shah has TL4 now)
- we can re-allocate some Admin/Mod rights if needed (currently me, @lassoan, @jcfr, @pieper, @bpaniagua)

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/10 "2017-06-21T17:16:25Z")

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I am modifying the [slicer.org](http://slicer.org) landing page to include links to all of those slicer customized communities. In this initial attempt we will just link to their independent sites, and possibly just create a general page that describes what the SlicerVerse is.

I plan to link to several custom versions of Slicer initially: SlicerSALT, SlicerCMF, SlicerDMRI, SlicerRT, SlicerCIP…

Please let me know who else might be interested in being included.

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/11 "2017-06-21T17:37:56Z")

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Suggestions:

[http://www.slicerigt.org/](http://www.slicerigt.org/)  
[http://plustoolkit.org](http://plustoolkit.org)

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/12 "2017-06-21T19:29:08Z")

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Also developing:

> **[SlicerProstate](https://github.com/SlicerProstate)**
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> A collection of 3D Slicer extensions to support research in image-guided interventions and imaging biomarker development for prostate cancer - SlicerProstate

SlicerRadiomics (at [https://www.radiomics.io/](https://www.radiomics.io/))

SlicerAstro (probably best at [https://github.com/Punzo/SlicerAstro/wiki](https://github.com/Punzo/SlicerAstro/wiki))

SlicerHeart ([https://github.com/SlicerHeart/SlicerHeart](https://github.com/SlicerHeart/SlicerHeart) may be too early to include)

Also a maybe: SlicerPatholology at [https://github.com/SBU-BMI/SlicerPathology](https://github.com/SBU-BMI/SlicerPathology)

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/13 "2017-06-21T19:30:25Z")

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@jcfr @pieper @mhalle

[https://github.com/bpaniagua/slicer.org/commit/eb7e3c9b7addecdd55757caf5adc16cbf2de6a29](https://github.com/bpaniagua/slicer.org/commit/eb7e3c9b7addecdd55757caf5adc16cbf2de6a29)  
(I used kompozer to make these changes so there spacing and returns in the html lines is a bit changed)

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/14 "2017-06-22T17:29:57Z")

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Initial draft. [https://bpaniagua.github.io/slicer.org/](https://bpaniagua.github.io/slicer.org/)  
Please, pay attention to the slicerverse description page: [https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Slicerverse](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Slicerverse)

Any feedback is appreciated!! Specific feedback I am looking for:

1. Content in Slicerverse page in the wiki
2. Should the SlicerVerse row be a footer, header?
3. Stylistic comments (icon sizes ok? other icons?)

Thank you!  
Bea

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/15 "2017-06-22T17:48:14Z")

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Definitely a good start. I think I’m a little too close to this to know  
how it would look to a new user. I wonder how best to get feedback from  
new users? (not just about SlicerVerse but about the rest of the page(s)  
too).

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/16 "2017-06-22T17:49:34Z")

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Oh, and I have not forgotten that @rkikinis requested page wide images and a more modern look.

If we change the layout so dramatically, I would actually look into the plenty of (some of which) are free[Jekyll Templates](https://jekyllthemes.io/). Or else, assigning this task to somebody that is not HTML challenged like me 🙂

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**Author:** ![ljod](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ljod/32/652_2.png) [@ljod](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ljod)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/17 "2017-06-22T19:14:29Z")

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I like it! Thanks!!! I wonder if users will be totally confused by the term SlicerVerse. I remember we discussed possible names and “Solutions” was one, but that is still not too specific. Perhaps “SlicerVerse Solutions” or “SlicerVerse Projects” or packages? Stylistically I think the font for SlicerVerse is a little larger than the font in the Slicer logo above, so at first glance it looked too big to me (minor detail). Ideally it would be great if a mouse hover over a SlicerVerse icon showed the name of the package.

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/18 "2017-06-22T19:25:29Z")

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I would call them “Distributions”, similarly to how it is done for ImageJ.

> **[Downloads](https://imagej.net/Downloads)**
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> These downloads bundle ImageJ with a curated collection of plugins pre-installed.

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/19 "2017-06-23T13:00:59Z")

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Thanks for the feedback!

Before

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/1X/e2ce5c9455b703eda15de15245c06584ba1f0a96.jpg)  
After [3D Slicer](https://bpaniagua.github.io/slicer.org/)

Also, SlicerDistributions after the main header or as a footer. I tried it but i did not like it much, but I wanted to know your opinion.

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40/20 "2017-06-23T13:05:07Z")

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I like the header!

Other suggestion: the [alt] text for each link could have a little more description, both for those who can’t infer from the image, and for screen-reader users. e.g. `SlicerDMRI: diffusion imaging and tractography`. `SlicerIGT: surgical guidance and navigation`

[Next page](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/communities-slicerverse/40.md?page=2)