i'll all for the move... maybe we'll get fresh new minds into the discussion to banter with the dinosaurs
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com> wrote: > You'll be fine Greg. [image: 😊] > > It has an email interface which shouldn't have any Javascript at all. This > depends on your email reader, of course, but you don't use Javascript on > that do you? > > > I look forward to our world-class experts moving to the new platform so > they can help the budding new developers joining. Shoulders of giants and > all that good motivational stuff. > > > I do like the self moderating functionality that it has. The more you > participate, the more the system trusts you. Cuts down on the spammers a > heap, I believe. > > > To address the hosting point, I believe we self host currently (on the > Codify servers), but perhaps a cloud hosted option would make it more > scale-able. I'm sure we can find something that won't break the bank. > > > Regarding the excitement in your email about the fact Discourse is written > in Javascript and Ember.js, I can see you won't be able to contain yourself > and will contribute to the codebase on Sunday mornings, right? > > > cheers > > Stephen > ------------------------------ > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on > behalf of Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, 3 April 2017 3:33:36 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Ozdotnet list > > Steve, a brave suggestion. This group's traffic has decreased dramatically > in recent years. I presume we're all world-class experts now and don't need > to ask questions that often! A fresh forum with a modern UI and features > sounds quite attractive, as opposed to an old fashioned e-mailing list, but > we'd have to get all interested people motivated to move and register, > which as you know with IT people is like herding cats. There are no > guarantees we'd become more active after the move. > > Discourse looks a little bit like Meetup, or the Xamarin forums. I suppose > privacy is the same or better, as all posts to this group are somehow > indexed and turn up in searches, but Discourse has private groups which I > expect won't get indexed. > > Oh, I just noticed you have to host it yourself, or pay for their hosting. > > Double-Oh! I just read this: > What was it built with? <https://www.discourse.org/faq/#tech> > > Discourse is a JavaScript application that runs in your web browser, > using the Ember.js <https://emberjs.com/> framework. > > Cheers, > *Greg K* > > On 3 April 2017 at 17:00, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com> wrote: > >> It's been some years since the big move to Mr Connors gracious hosting of >> the eList. Thanks for that by the way David! >> >> For whatever reason it lives on, despite the low traffic. Perhaps it's >> the entertainment value of people who live/vent there. Hard to measure. I >> expect David would have a way to tell how many people are still on the >> list. >> >> I do think Aussie developers deserve/need our own identity, and our own >> community. Well, it does exist but I do wonder if other forums might better >> suit the needs (and yet still we are here with people subscribed...). >> >> As an Admin of the current group (workload of said role is rather low. ie >> It's been almost ten years since I had to do anything Admin like. The Admin >> list seems to be gone) >> >> I've noticed that Discourse.org now exists and is open source. And Free. >> And has code highlighting built in. And also has elist delivery out of the >> box. As well as a web interface if that floats your boat. Ticks all the >> boxes from what we were looking for many years ago. >> >> Full feature list is here https://www.discourse.org/about/ >> >> I'd like to propose we move to it and actively promote it once it's all >> up and running. Given the lists currently existing cover a few different >> topics, not just AusDotNet, we should move them all over. Except >> Silverlight. Don't even talk to me about that. Just don't. Ok? >> >> Seriously, stop looking at me. >> >> So how do we brand it? OzDev? Did we ever end up with a domain name? It >> would be a good time to get one if not. >> >> The best part about this is David will have to do most of the work, but >> if we still have any Admins left on this list (maybe it's just me and >> David?) assistance would be good, just put your hand up. >> >> I have a fond memory of the AusDotNet list and have been on it for my >> entire developer career. It's been invaluable. Time to bring it kicking and >> screaming into the Internet of today, a limelight for fellow Aussie >> developers both existing, and yet to be. We have a big community and I'd >> like to be able to give back to it. >> >> Will do some work on a logo (or outsource it to my daughter who'd doing a >> graphic design degree)... >> >> Discuss. >> Stephen >> >> >
