re: GitHub, I think Phabricator is a fine option, but GitLab is a real option to seriously consider, despite having some non-Free extras in their Enterprise Edition. It's what we're using now at Snowdrift.coop.
An alternative to Mailman, of course, is to use a forum like Discourse that can be functional like a mailing list but also work as a forum. There's all sorts of benefits to that approach, although I haven't strictly compared it to Mailman 3 which is a mailing list that can be set to function more like a forum. Re: chapters, I'm more of a fan of having local meetups, i.e. they could be called chapters but are more about locally set up recurring (if not regular) meetups and events but not with all the burden of being a real organization. I have lots of thoughts, of course (given research on things for Snowdrift.coop), about decisions for how to manage governance, democracy, etc. and will try to weigh in where I can, juggling lots of things. Cheers, Aaron -- Aaron Wolf wolftune.com On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all for the quick & positive responses! > > First, I'm noticing that a lot of messages getting tagged as spam by > GMail, which I _think_ is due to lack of encryption being configured > for postfix on the freeculture.org server. I do think I know where to > begin with fixing that, but if anyone has experience with that problem > set, please drop me a note -- it'll make me more comfortable changing > the config to have someone looking at what I'm doing. In any case, if > you're only seeing a small number of responses, check your spam > folder. > > Relatedly, please expect that traffic on this list may spike a bit, > especially in coming weeks -- so if it gets too much, you may want to > filter/label list traffic for a while. > > - - - > > Kyra, thanks for starting on the free culture priority ideas! Re: > alternatives to GitHub, a quick shout-out to Phabricator which > Wikimedia ended up using, and which has (very basic but still neat) > support for assets like mock-ups by designers. But it lacks the > network-oriented approach GitHub has, which makes it a poor choice for > smaller open source projects in my experience. :| > > A couple of specific comments: > > > I used to be a big proponent of the local/school chapters/teams, but i > have some > > hesitation to that now. I think the overhead is significant and it's not > the type > > of organizing that I think is most valuable right now (but possibly in > the future). > > *nod* In addition to the overhead, I'm not sure I think local groups > are the right point to start from when we're in a situation where the > excitement/motivation of people may not necessarily map to a specific > geography. I'm old-school in that I still like the combination of > wikis (for organizing membership + projects) and listservs (for > reminding people through their inboxes of stuff that the on-wiki > groups are doing ;-). If some of those virtual groups then become more > face-to-face/persistent, that's great too! > > > I like the wiki being a separate webspace, but wouldn't mind it being at > something like freeculture.org/collaborate or something. > > Okay, we can play with some options here. What's your concern re: > separation? I mostly want to make sure that the freeculture.org > landing page has immediate paths to getting involved, projects that > look fun, tasks that need doing, etc. :) If you want to have a > separate blog, there are a few RSS extensions for MW that would allow > us to embed it while still using the wiki as the landing page. > > Re: mailman upgrade, I'm a bit scared of mailman, I think justifiably > so, but I'll take a look into what it would take. If anyone wants to > help, please drop a note offlist on that front as well, and we'll > coordinate. > > > also, Lynn, Nina, Cindy, Susana, (all on the team page of the website) > and myself are all still in contact and happy to help. > > Would you, er, be able to help with the mailman update, perhaps? :) > > Erik > > [1] > http://blog.snapdragon.cc/2013/07/07/setting-postfix-to-encrypt-all-traffic-when-talking-to-other-mailservers/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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