Thanks Rob for your solutionist approach.
I knew about groupserver but not discourse.
So now in the new spirit of openness...
Another ongoing and mildly anxt-ridden backroom discussion at
Furtherfield HQ (first think Google and then try to imagine the
opposite) is about an approach to renewing and maintaining our
web-infrastructure.
The website runs of Drupal - excellent FOSS community software - which
will soon need to be upgraded.
Netbehaviour runs off Mailman - we will have to soon move or re-host the
Netbehaviour list somewhere/somehow else, because a number of the major
mail providers appear to be starting to refuse to service this kind of
email discussion list (to which Michael and a number of other patient
and diligent subscribers will testify)
Two issues
1) the cost and time associated with strategising, consulting,
designing, planning and remunerating all involved, for their efforts
while: future-proofing community infrastructure, caring for the
archive/database. We have had some really very good and generous support
from a number of people to help us understand what the process might be,
but the work still needs doing...and all risks mitigated!
2) connected to the above - maintaining the connections we all have,
while inviting in new and diverse (in age, background, device-loyalty,
ethnicity) people.
We can't underestimate the scale of the work involved in bridging new
and legacy systems.
We think we need money to do this because so many people in this network
are already so generous with their energy.
We are leaving no stone unturned to find/earn/generate the money and
this also takes time.
We aren't there yet.
Respect,
R
On 02/10/15 03:41, Rob Myers wrote:
On 01/10/15 02:21 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
But I too have had a feeling of un-ease about a disconnect with the
conversations that happen here on the list. This list is one of my
favourite places, and yet I find it hard to advocate for it, to people
who are not already here. Perhaps because email has now acquired toxic
associations for many people because of the demands it places on
'immaterial labourers'.
They're all exploited via apps now aren't they? :-)
At the risk of solutionism, modern discussion systems provide web forum
-style interfaces to mailing lists (and vice versa).
https://www.discourse.org/
http://groupserver.org/
- Rob.
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