# Contact of project week attendees

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449>\
**Category:** Project Week\
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449 "2017-06-07T14:05:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/1 "2017-06-07T14:05:44Z")

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@Tina_Kapur What would be the best way to get in touch with attendees before and during the project week ?

Here are few options I am thinking about:

- shared a google doc with list of all emails
- ask attendees to join discourse (and we make they are added to a project week" group)

Cc: @pieper

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**Author:** ![drouin-simon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/drouin-simon/32/258_2.png) [@drouin-simon](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/drouin-simon)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/2 "2017-06-07T14:07:28Z")

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Works for me. Can you create the group J-C?

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/3 "2017-06-07T14:10:36Z")

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> [@drouin-simon](#):
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> Can you create the group J-C?

Here is the group: [https://discourse.slicer.org/groups/ProjectWeek](https://discourse.slicer.org/groups/ProjectWeek)

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**Author:** ![drouin-simon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/drouin-simon/32/258_2.png) [@drouin-simon](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/drouin-simon)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/4 "2017-06-07T14:12:20Z")

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I cannot join the group (it says Closed Group)

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/5 "2017-06-07T14:17:04Z")

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> [@drouin-simon](#):
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> I cannot join the group (it says Closed Group)

Should be better know, I just enabled the option `Allow users to join/leave the group freely (Requires group to be visible)`

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**Author:** ![drouin-simon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/drouin-simon/32/258_2.png) [@drouin-simon](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/drouin-simon)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/6 "2017-06-07T14:18:16Z")

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Cool. I’ve joined now.

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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 7, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/7 "2017-06-07T15:11:18Z")

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I think it’s a good idea to use Discourse for reaching project week participants but I think we should simply create a new topic (Project Week #25 announcements) or maybe category (Project weeks) that participants should subscribe to, instead of using groups. Problems with groups: messages are not public, so people who join the group later will not see previous announcements; not obvious how to send messages (you need to use the “message” feature and enter the group name); groups and messaging are new concepts that users would need to learn.

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/8 "2017-06-07T15:33:28Z")

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> [@lassoan](#):
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> (Project Week #25 announcements) or maybe category (Project weeks) that participants should subscribe to, instead of using groups.

The category “Project Week” already exist: [ProjectWeek - 3D Slicer Community](https://discourse.slicer.org/c/community/project-week)

Since the group is only a convenience to allow sending a message to all attendees, creating a topic `Project Week #25 announcements` make more sense. See [Project Week #25 announcements](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/project-week-25-announcements/450)

[@ProjectWeekAttendees](https://discourse.slicer.org/groups/projectweekattendees) Should we delete the group then ?

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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:** [November 21, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/contact-of-project-week-attendees/449/9 "2017-11-21T17:12:13Z")

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