Back in the day (a few years ago) there was a UK tech mailing list. Sadly it became disused. Things were also posted on the WMUK wiki - again, sadly, those pages are now disused. They were nice while they lasted.
Thanks, Mike > On 17 Jan 2017, at 13:34, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm still trying to understand why UK-based Wikimedia developer > discussions have to be on a closed forum. > > As an example, with global discussions around issues or changes on > Phabricator, a key benefit is that it is easy to link to these > discussions and information on-wiki so that anyone can review them, > not just those that have set up accounts on Phabricator. Encouraging > wiki-project developers to join an invite-only channel to discuss > changes to their open projects behind closed doors, appears to force a > contradiction in values and remain an ethical barrier for potential > contributors. > > At the point where any development might change Wikimedia projects, > whatever was done on a closed forum would have to be presented > publicly. Even abandoned ideas benefit the community by adding to our > store of common knowledge, if the discussions are available for future > reference rather than held in closed archives. > > Fae > > On 17 January 2017 at 14:51, John Lubbock <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk > <mailto:john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk>> wrote: >> The other thing is that we have already started using Slack in the office >> for chat, and I have another slack channel for the Kurdish Wikipedia >> Project, so I've already gone down this path a bit of a way and to back out >> and start again because something else is open source would be quite >> disruptive for other work I'm doing. I'm trying to organise developers to >> come to one place to discuss this, and I've chosen Slack because it's easy >> and lots of people use it. I appreciate that it might not be ideal for some >> people, but I really can't spare the time and effort to start this all again >> from scratch. >> >> John >> >> On 17 January 2017 at 13:19, Katherine Bavage <katherine.bav...@gmail.com >> <mailto:katherine.bav...@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not planning to join because I don't code (though I'm happy to join a >>> channel if you get to a stage where end user or design process feedback is >>> useful) but I would note that asking people to adopt new platforms 'just >>> because they are open source', rather than ones that are used by a lot of >>> people/ a lot of people are already familiar with, is pretty daft when your >>> ultimate goal is to benefit the open source community through the work the >>> channel fosters. >>> >>> As far as I know, for this type of work, Slack is the go to for most devs. >>> The Foundation use it without issue. >>> >>> On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 at 12:24 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 17/01/17 00:38, John Lubbock wrote: >>>>> It costs a lot of money, as far as I can see (it says Try for Free and >>>>> then takes you to a page where it asks you to pay $100 a month). >>>> >>>> **** >>>> We wrote Discourse, and we can host it for you, too. >>>> **** >>>> >>>> Yes, that is a hosting option. You can download and install for free. I >>>> am suggesting WMUK host the code on their own server... >>>> >>>> Gordo > > -- > fae...@gmail.com <mailto:fae...@gmail.com> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimediau...@wikimedia.org> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l> > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk <https://wikimedia.org.uk/>
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