[open-cobol-list] New Add 1 to Cobol Mailing List.

[Aoirthoir An Broc]

As many of you know, we've had a [terrible] mailing list for Add 1 to Cobol for many months now. It was managed by hand, which made it very difficult for folks to join, leave and so on. Thankfully I've now set up a listserv for the Add 1 to Cobol mailing list. All of those that receive these emails from the address@hidden mailing list, will need to head over to the new listserv and sign up. Additionally many folks on the OpenCobol forums and listserv may have an interest in the Add 1 to Cobol list. Why?

To reiterate our purpose, Add 1 to Cobol is a Cobol Advocacy group, with OpenCobol as our compiler of choice. (The last bit of that is becoming more and more true, considering all of the wonderful work Roger is doing on the compiler, and folks like Seth and Jim and Mark and Brian are doing with addons, and the great docs that are soon to be released the FAQ from Brian and the OpenCobol Manual by Gary. A hearty thanks to every one of yall for the work you do.)

So how do we advocate Cobol? Through use mostly. We have a Subversion repository for folks to contribute Free Software to, typically with the GNU GPL License. Vincent has added a lot of his Accounting, we've added some Mysql Libraries, some PHP for interim solutions (for instance Cheap A$$ CMS, which will soon be converted to Cobol) and many other things.

The reason thus for the additional mailing list is for discussions of addons, programs written in Cobol and other things OpenCobol related, but not germane to the discussions about the compiler itself. This way our conversations can keep from cluttering the OpenCobol list.

So if you would like to contribute, or learn more, participate in discussions of this nature, would like to learn about our Subversion Repostory, and gain access to commits, or just would like to follow our conversations in general, please head to the listserv and sign up at:

http://lists.add1.to/listinfo.cgi/opencobol-add1.to

Also don't forget about our chats on irc.mibbit.com in #add1.to where we talk about all things OpenCobol related. We're open most of the time, with a steady growing group of regulars again (now that the web front end issues are fixed, Thanks Mibbit!).

This Sunday we will be having a special meeting to discuss how we can form teams to help Roger more directly. These discussions will take place over the next four weeks. So be sure to stop by. If you cannot make it on Sundays (details in my signature), then stop in any time throughout the week and let us know what you are thinking. If we don't respond right away, please stick around, and we'll eventually notice you have arrived and strike up a conversation.

Many Kind Regards,
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Aoirthoir An Broc
http://www.add1.to
Regular Add 1 To meetings:
Where: MIBBIT IRC (irc.mibbit.com)
Channel: #add1.to
Access from the web: http://bit.ly/31PSrf

Date: Sundays
Time: 9:00am Eastern

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There has been some confusion as to the time. I believe this is because the United States uses Daylight Savings Time. On top of this the Government recently extended the dates that EDT (eastern daylight time) would run. So to be sure that you make it at 9am Eastern, I have this link:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179

That shows the time in New York City at the moment of viewing. It also explains the current UTC offset for the Eastern Zone in the United States. Simply compare the current time that site states, with your current time and you will know how far off we are from you.
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We're there all of the time, even when we do not have a meeting. Stop on by for OpenCobol and Add 1 To Support and chat.