Announcement of the NetLogo Forum

[yuehanc...@u.northwestern.edu]

Hello NetLogo users!

We are glad to announce the NetLogo forum (https://forum.netlogo.org) as part of our National Science Foundation-sponsored effort to strengthen the NetLogo user community. We hope the forum will become a hub for our open-source community.

We will continue to support this Google group for the time being, but there are a few reasons to switch to the forum. First, the Forum has many more features than the Google group, including offering multiple categories (discussed below), being able to embed formatted NetLogo code, and offering multilingual support (you can post in any language, and the forum will automatically detect this, and provide translation as needed). Another reason for this change: A few weeks ago, Google Groups briefly banned this group for no obvious reason (and then reinstated it with no reason given). Switching to a forum hosted by the NetLogo team would ensure long-term availability and stability.

To ask questions and give answers as is currently done on this Google group, you can now use the Q&A - NetLogo Forum category. The new forum keeps most of our current features intact. For example, you can still reply to posts through email. You will still receive email digests, and you can subscribe to the whole forum or parts of it (see this post for how to customize your email notification settings). In addition to asking/answering questions, here are some other things you can do on the new NetLogo forum:

1. Request new features
2. Report bugs
3. Discuss educational uses
4. Try out beta features
5. Share & Showcase your models, projects, and papers

Please let us know if you have any questions or problems accessing or using the forum. You can either reply to this thread, post in the forum, or send an email to ccl-fe...@ccl.northwestern.edu.

Best,
John Chen
PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Learning Sciences
Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (CCL)
Northwestern University