Jeff, Yes, I could see something like loomio being very helpful. I don't know if we would want both loomio and something slack-like but we might. It would be fantastic for board meetings.
I would definitely be in support of something like this or slack or something being hosted by OSGeo. Mike ---- Michael Smith OSGeo Foundation Treasurer treasu...@osgeo.org -----Original Message----- From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo thoughts on discussion/collaboration platform hosting Resent-From: Michael Smith <michael.sm...@usace.army.mil> >Hi Mike, > >I agree this is a good discussion. By the way, Tim Sutton just pointed >me to a decision making platform that QGIS is now using, I think it >would be great to have an OSGeo instance (see below): > >**** > >On 2015-10-17 6:53 PM, Tim Sutton wrote: > > > > did you consider using something like loomio - we found it very > > frustrating dealing with decisions via email +1 / -1 etc system as it >is > > very hard to know when the decision is made, hard to back reference > > decisions and people tend to start voting on things willy nilly without > > having a well defined motion in place. We recently switched to using > > loomio.org <BlockedBlockedhttp://loomio.orgBlocked> which is a FOSS >platform for shared > > decision making. It separates the discussion from the vote(s) but puts > > them side by side so you can see the context. It also lets you set a > > deadline for making votes. Its really nice and natural to use. Maybe it > > would be nice to have an OSGEO instance that all projects could use - >we > > just opted to use their hosted version under the philosophy that the > > less stuff we have to manage ourselves the betterĀ. Here is our QGIS > > project on loomio: > > > > BlockedBlockedhttps://www.loomio.org/g/EKV14L8A/qgisBlocked > > >**** > >On 2015-10-18 9:16 AM, Michael Smith wrote: >> Along the lines of code hosting, do we want to think about some kind of >> OSGeo hosted Slack-like service for the community / projects, eg >> MatterMost, RocketChat, etc? >> >> >> I wanted to start this as a separate topic although a lot of these >> alternatives are based on git or gitlab so its a very related >>discussion. >> >> What would be useful to OSGeo projects? >> >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >BlockedBlockedhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discussBlocked _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss