Forums were discussed a couple of years ago in the beginning. The
opposition to them was that people would have to register in order to
use them, and then it's another web app that we have to maintain, apply
security patches to, and everyone else would have to remember
credentials for. Personally, I don't think the community (members,
friends of the space, people interested in us, etc) is large enough to
justify running something like vBulletin, SMF or phpBB.
Reddit is kinda already implemented (we have a SYN/HAK subreddit), but I
think only a handful of us actually use the site. The subreddit has
something like six posts in 8 months.
More mailing lists appeals to me because it makes it possible for people
to subscribe to channels of discussion that are relevant to them. For
example, if we were to start making mailing lists that are specific to
individual projects (for example, the Power Racing Series cars), someone
who is uninterested in the project could browse the pipermail archives
if they wanted to see what was going on with the project. If they were
then interested in the project, they could join the list and become
active that way.
Sure, it's nice to have one big massive list that everyone subscribes
to, but eventually you start to get the people that are overwhelmed with
the amount of email they are receiving.
Chris
On 11/13/2013 4:20 PM, Ben Lippincott wrote:
We could make a private subreddit
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Justin Herman <just...@gmail.com
<mailto:just...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Seems like a different medium might work better. I fear that
different people will have different opinions about what is
off-topic.
Maybe instead....
Fourm
Reddit
etc.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Ben Lippincott
<benji.lippinc...@gmail.com <mailto:benji.lippinc...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
Wooot! Let's do it!
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Bethany Munyan
<beth.mun...@gmail.com <mailto:beth.mun...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I was thinking the same thing. I like the idea of having
an 'off-topic' mailing list.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Chris Egeland
<ch...@chrisegeland.com <mailto:ch...@chrisegeland.com>>
wrote:
Hey hackers!
I've been watching the mailing lists very closely for
some time now, and have noticed a general uptrend in
the volume of email sent to the discuss list.
Sometimes we get offtopic and go off on tangents
about toast, or other topics which are fun to talk
about, but are ultimately irrelevant to the space
itself. Usually, this isn't a problem, but for
someone who is interested in the space, but not the
minutiae of every little bit of day-to-day operations,
it can quickly turn into an overwhelming amount of email.
Today, I'm asking for input on how we should proceed
with the mailing lists. As you may know, we currently
have 5 lists, two of which are public, one semipublic,
and two private. discuss@synhak.org
<mailto:discuss@synhak.org> and annou...@synhak.org
<mailto:annou...@synhak.org> are the two that everyone
knows about. Members may know that they are
automatically subscribed to memb...@synhak.org
<mailto:memb...@synhak.org>. Board members are
subscribed to bo...@synhak.org
<mailto:bo...@synhak.org> and us sysadmin folk are
members of sysad...@synhak.org
<mailto:sysad...@synhak.org>.
My recommendation is to create an "offtopic" list,
which would have very very lax rules on what can be
posted. Anything you want to chat about. Want to
debate why the RubberDucks is a terrible team name and
the Aeros was WAY better? Sure, no problem. Got a
pothole on Market street that irks you every day?
Have at it. Joke threads? Toast? No problem. The
other side to this idea is that the discuss list would
have some basic rules imposed that mean that any
topics to the discuss list would be required to be
relevant to the space itself. Projects occurring at
the space would be relevant topics, open hours
discussion, meeting minutes, etc.
So, let me know what you guys think. I'm not
officially proposing this, but we may chat about it at
the next meeting as a discussion topic, because it
would fundamentally mean we change how the mailing
lists are organized and structured.
Thanks,
Chris
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https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Thanks!
Ben Lippincott
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Discuss mailing list
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https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
Discuss@synhak.org <mailto:Discuss@synhak.org>
https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Thanks!
Ben Lippincott
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