Moving this list to Discourse

[Angus Gratton]

Hi everyone,

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:05:24PM +1100, Matthew Iversen wrote:
> I was also wondering if people would like to transition sometime to
> discourse - http://discourse.opentechschool.org/
>
> It can now apparently also look like a mailing list, if that's your
> preferred usage pattern -
> http://discourse.opentechschool.org/t/system-update-acting-almost-like-a-mailinglist/461
>
> Of course, I don't want to lose anyone who currently follows this (also
> our Melbourne OTS page currently points here) but I think it would be
> good to seriously think about transitioning over. Please share any
> opinions if you have any ;)

This mailing list has 14 subscribers. So far this year I count 17
posts by 5 different people, so it's not a large list by any
metric.

If a majority of people on this list are OK with moving to Discourse,
I say we do it. Please let your preference be heard, everyone. :)

The "Australia Chapter" category that Matt set up is here:
http://discourse.opentechschool.org/category/chapters/australia

My only strong request is that once we choose one or the other of
these we disable or close the other channel, so it's clear which one
is our actual organisation communications channel. Nothing worse than
having multiple separate ones.

Some of my more personal thoughts follow:


I like email a lot. I write emails in mutt with emacs, so I suppose
the only way I could be more oldfashioned would be if I had a teletype
machine. :)

I'm a little disheartened that the only way to subscribe to Discourse
via email seems to be to receive everything, then progressively mute
the categories you aren't interested in. But I'm willing to give that
a go.

The web features of Discourse certainly seem much nicer than the "poor
cousin of Google Plus" status that Groups has been reduced to.

- Angus

[Steven Farlie]

I left "Receive an email every time a post is made on the forum (unless you have muted the topic or category)" unchecked but added the "Australia" category to the watch list. We'll see how it goes.

Happy enough to try it out. Google Groups has gotten progressively worse and it's only a matter of time before it is retired or absorbed by Google+.

- Angus

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