Early on this year we started a new topic here which we thought will attract students and help us to build a community for students in iMechanica, that would have lot of advantages at this stage. You can go through the development of this idea at different stages at" calling all students ". Recently we have got a comment on our forum which follows, as I am thinking that this voice could have been representing a wide group of students and their ideas therefore I thought it is better if we "all students" post our suggestions and responds.  

This can be a further start point for us, if we know what the other students think. Recently, "Michael Anthony" has post a comment to our link which I do appreciate because of being honest and telling us what he thinks we should be doing here. I am trying to put this to your attention once again and keep this idea fresh. His comment was some sort a question from most of us as so called "Student Society" in iMechanica. I think it is important if we all think about this comment and respond of what we think is top! 

"Micheal" says: 

"I am commenting because you requested that students who read this comment. As to the topic at hand, I don't think much action is required. I do not think that the community here is going to make any large shifts because of a special effort to attract us students.  I do not think that a section called Students would be very effective. It is of note that the similar section you mentioned—Education—has many entries that do not seem to have anything to do with education.  

Forgive my cyncicism, but I am sharing what I think is most realistic. I don't think iMechanica needs to change to suit students; it has currently formed into what it is naturally and organically, and it doesn't make sense to change it to try to suit such a goal. Publicity among students is another issue, but I do not think it makes sense to try to make this a different place to attract people who otherwise would not be interested."

Lets get this opportunity to ask from ourselves; " how we can get more students join us here?" Lets ask from ourselves that why some students think that iMechanica is not helpful for them or in other words should not focus on that group. I am inviting all students and Micheal to discuss this further and refresh our topic, maybe to call students another time! I am quite sure if we start thinking about Micheal's comment we can find better ways to improve iMechanica to suit students. Lets take it from here and try to give practical comments and replies to a question which might be a query of other students.