Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [EXTERNAL] Re: OSGeo thoughts on discussion/collaboration platform hosting
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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [EXTERNAL] Re: OSGeo thoughts on discussion/collaboration platform hosting
One problem that I have with IRC is being firewalled due to the ports (at work or vpn). I also find the mobile clients for the Slack-like alternatives to be much better than any IRC mobile client I've found. And just a generally higher level of functionality while still allowing IRC clients (via some IRC gateway). Mike Michael Smith US Army Corps Remote Sensing GIS/Center michael.sm...@usace.army.mil -Original Message- From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Sandro Santilli <s...@keybit.net> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 8:35 AM To: Michael Smith <michael.smith.e...@gmail.com> Cc: 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> >On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 08:16:10AM -0400, 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? > >It takes a poll, I guess. >Personally, IRC serves me well (but we could add an irc server link to >the freenode network from osgeo machines :) > >BTW: this wiki page may be helpful, and surely can be enhanced: >Blockedhttp://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:SaaSS_replacementsBlocked > >--strk; >___ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >Blockedhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discussBlocked ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [EXTERNAL] Re: OSGeo thoughts on discussion/collaboration platform hosting
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 01:17:18PM +, Smith, Michael ERDC-RDE-CRREL-NH wrote: > One problem that I have with IRC is being firewalled due to the ports. That'd be easily solvable by having our own server running on port 80 of irc.osgeo.org. > I also find the mobile clients for the Slack-like alternatives to be much > better than any IRC mobile client I've found. And just a generally higher > level of functionality while still allowing IRC clients (via some IRC > gateway). I find mobile devices to have such an horrible keyboard that I'd hate to use them for chatting, anyway. In any case, listing what functionality you're after would be a good start. Maybe draft a wiki page about that ? --strk; ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss