Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] DFEY-NW rename to DFEY?

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I renamed the project.

-- 
Sylvain

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:13:42AM +0100, Tim Dobson wrote:
> Hi there Sylvain and Savannah Hackers!
> 
> I'm Tim Dobson, about a year ago now, myself and Ben Webb set up
> DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West) on
> Savannah.
> 
> Whilst we aren't strictly a GUG, we are essentially a free software
> group. ( http://www.gnu.org/gnu/fs-user-groups.html#UK )
> 
> When we set up DFEY-NW originally, we were thinking mainly about the
> short term - getting a group of young people who were interested in
> the issues surrounding freedom in the digital world and meeting up
> in real life and online.
> 
> We've been quite successful at doing that, our mailing list now has
> 40+ people on it, we get a regular turn out to DFEY-NW meetings, we
> have over 30 entries from the local tech community for our Logo
> Competition and we've worked with a local free software/open data
> co-operative (plings.net) to help find funding to assist us going to
> free software development events.
> 
> We've started to work with local schools,colleges and universities
> to get technically adept young people involved with free software
> and DFEY-NW with some success.
> 
> Since we originally started DFEY-NW we have heard time and time
> again of young people located in other regions of Great Britain who
> are really interested in DFEY-NW, but due to DFEY-NW being centred
> around real life meetups and real life collaboration as much as it
> is about online collaboration, it's difficult for them to be funny
> involved.
> 
> As was originally intended, DFEY (Digital Freedom in Education &
> Youth) is now a network of local DFEY branches in several regions of
> Great Britain who naturally need to be able to communicate with
> other people in their area.
> 
> Currently, the Savannah group we have is:
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dfey-nw/
> 
> However, this is somewhat problematic as it means although we can
> easily create mailing lists such as dfey-nw-discuss and
> dfey-nw-admin, to get a list created for those in a different area,
> they need to go through the whole project creation process on
> Savannah, just to get a list. This not only takes really quite a
> long time, but it also somewhat decentralises the motives and values
> of DFEY.
> 
> I wondered whether it would be at all possible for you to rename or
> some how change the savannah project:
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dfey-nw/
> 
> to
> 
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dfey/
> 
> so that we can relatively quickly launch a dfey-se-discuss mailing
> list, with dfey-$[city|region]-discuss etc being the standard form
> for lists.
> 
> I hope this makes sense, if it is at all possible in any way, that
> would be fantastic! :)
> 
> If you have any questions, please do feel free to get in touch,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim Dobson
> (DFEY-NW co-organiser)
> 
> www.dfey.org
>