Re: [Fsfe-uk] List status (please read ;)

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

Alex Hudson wrote:

at 08:48:42 +0100 and I received at 08:50:54 +0100 :-)


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> Some of us talked previously about a specialised affs-pr list, intended
> for alerts to news items, responses, etc. I'm fairly reticent to go
> about creating a separate list, though, since the traffic we have is
> often a bit up and down and it seems somewhat devisive.

why do I think this organised PR mechanism will have to be private (for 
those chosen ones and those who step forward)? Even if it is mailing 
list it has to be private.

I like the idea of keeping in touch via Jabber and do not think it is 
too much of a task to teach someone totally new a process of how to use 
a groupworking software....

have you seen Gforge?
<http://www.gforge.org>

Unfortunately the only heavy use of it AFAIK,at Blender seems to be 
broken at the moment. I have created another account at [sarovar.org] 
where there is no one to experiment the features to the full.
Also I am yet to see how the jabber service integrates with it.
The good thing for the PR project is one can track another user's diary 
entries and possibly  bookmarks among many other groupworking feature.
Voting and surveys are there.

Some nonsense like rating will have to cut out and we could have free 
infrastructure that can host many projects.

The customised Mailman apparently integrates well too.

[I can volunteer to configure customise Gforge but not sure about 
hosting from home. Might need a hand with Jabberd]

> Certainly, the idea of setting up affs-discuss seems to have merit at
> the moment. As most people will be aware, fsfe-uk is not the AFFS list
> (despite the name people give it in their address books ;) - AFFS
> doesn't really have a list at the moment. Creating our own would mean
> our mail gets relayed on a lightly loaded server in this country, rather
> than a heavily loaded one in the US. Would people be willing to
> subscribe to a new list? 

Yes.

> Also, do people see any merit in an affs-pr list? There are some tasks
> that would be useful to perform on that list - design & content of the
> new AFFS leaflet, for example - but I'm not sure how long they will

If we ran an instance of Gforge this can be our
'Design (1)' project in the index along with
'PR - private (1)'and possibly the
'UK-Accounts (1)' projects.

More will accumulate before we know. We are in the UK and there is no 
one else doing such AFAIK.


> last. The danger is, of course, that we prevent people from
> participating in some discussions by having them in many different
> places.

True.

One thing that was never clear was why not host FSFE-UK under FSFE?

Best wishes,

Ramanan