I personally wouldn't be inclined to participate in something that requires me to run another client - even if only in a web tab. I suspect that may be the case with a lot of LUGgers.
If maintaining the list server is burdensome, perhaps we could switch it to Google Groups or some other hosted list manager? Matthias Johnson wrote: > I think the thought was that the mailing list would still send > announcements but only that. This simplifies the mailing list setup because > you don't need to do spam filtering. I don't think Sean has an issue > running the mailing list as it currently is, but also doesn't want to > support something that people do not have an interest in. > Most new people seem to find us through Meetup. Meetup is great and I would > encourage anyone that is not on Meetup to join, but, if you don't want > another account then you can still rely on the mailing list for reminders. > If anyone wants to communicate through IRC and is unfamiliar, I would > suggest the Hexchat client for joining the #mhvlug channel on freenode, let > us know if you have any setup questions on that. The downside I find with > IRC, is that on a mobile device it can be a bit of a pain versus some web > based solutions that have a simplified history. > I feel MHVLUG has a lot of talented people with a lot of knowledge and > constructive support to offer and this is about bringing those connections > to where people are. > > On Nov 3, 2016 10:09 AM, "Mike Kershaw" <drag...@kismetwireless.net> wrote: > > > $0.02 if you move off irc, go for slack. It's got decent mobile support > > and an IRC bridge. > > > > If you're going to kill the ML, the question is where changes and > > announcements get made - I don't think telling people who are ML only to go > > on slack is going to get much traction; we could just rely on meetup to > > distribute that info. > > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:07 AM Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: > > > >> This is a subject that came up last night at dinner. Right now we've got > >> a couple of low traffic virtual communications spaces. This mailing > >> list, and IRC. Both are kind of small subsets of the folks we currently > >> have. > >> > >> The mailing list used to be a lot more active. But that included folks > >> drifting way off topic and common civility. Both of which I think made > >> people wary of using this more. It's also a chunk of infrastructure that > >> needs to be maintained, including spam processing. > >> > >> This is kind of an open discussion about what should we do with this > >> list. Is having an email discussion list still valuable? Should we > >> instead double down on IRC (which sees a bit more activity, but with a > >> smaller group of folks). Or should we look at a something more web based > >> like Slack/Gitter.im/Mattermost? > >> > >> If you have an opinion now is the time to express it. We'll probably > >> make some decision by the end of the year here. > >> > >> -Sean > >> > >> -- > >> Sean Dague > >> http://dague.net > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > >> https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > >> > >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > >> Dec 7 - The Internet Archive And Archive Team > >> Jan 4 - Jupyter Notebook > >> Feb 1 - Home Assistant > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > > Dec 7 - The Internet Archive And Archive Team > > Jan 4 - Jupyter Notebook > > Feb 1 - Home Assistant > > > > > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = mmul...@enduden.com | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reloaded. ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * Dec 7 - The Internet Archive And Archive Team Jan 4 - Jupyter Notebook Feb 1 - Home Assistant
