So far no negative responses. We'll do some trialing to make sure Discourse is all it says.
We do need to decide as a group of we wish to continue the focus on Aussie dotnet Devs, or expand it to include other Aussie developers. Is there a difference these days? Naming is important and refactoring is harder when it involves a domain name. What do people self promote as these days? Is it still fine calling yourself a DotNet developer when we spend so much time with so many other things these days? Personally I still identify as a .Net developer so think we should stick with the name we have (even though other topics are often discussed). Just thought I'd ask in case there are other opinions. cheers, Stephen On 4 Apr. 2017 7:07 am, Glen Harvy <g...@aquarius.com.au> wrote: I know I don't contribute much but I do support the move although the move will likely not increase participation in itself. If you want to increase participation then we will need to promote the echoes and if at all possible gain some support from generous benefactors. Getting a web site presence is step 1 as far as I can suggest. Glen. On 3/04/2017 4:30 PM, Stephen Price 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
