Meet up and community participation

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Hi,

I see there was a meet up last Saturday, January 22. That's awesome!

I would have loved to attend. Unfortunately, I didn't know about it. Maybe it was only announced within the Discord or on Facebook? Those aren't really accessible. It doesn't look like it was announced anywhere public: I don't see it on the mailing list, it's not on the blog, nor is it on the GitHub (but why would it be there anyway). Those are the only places that display publicly and without an account. I see there's a new "event" button on the OpenSteno homepage. Was the expectation that people would see a new button on the homepage? Am I missing something?

Hopefully this message even gets to someone. The mailing list says that only members can post. To become a member you have to use a Google account. I don't want to have a Google account and I'm not sure why that should be a perquisite for joining the community. I found this address on the "about" page of the mailing list.

Matt

[Mirabai Knight]

Oh, weird. I'm sorry. Yeah, Google Groups spam filters are really excessive! I try to manually whitelist everything and everyone I can, but sometimes it doesn't even notify me that someone is trying to get through, which is really frustrating!! Gonna perma-whitelist you now. Sorry again!!

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[Ted Morin]

Thanks for the feedback. The meetup was largely community-driven, as was its promotion. The main place where it was organized was the Discord server, and I saw it publicly posted in the r/Plover subreddit. I can understand the promoters' point of view of not wanting to over-spam it in all possible channels (the Discord actually has an aggregate feed of many sources plus its own announcements and events feature, so it can feel like spamming as posting it in 5 places will make 5 Discord messages).

I think we sometimes neglect the Google Group because the Discord sees so much more action (relatively), but I'll try to establish a procedure for how we socialize future events to be more inclusive. The events page was a new idea and was implemented by a community member so hopefully we can highlight future events there too.The Plover Blog is great because it mirrors to Twitter. Google Group allows for our large member base here to receive it.

As for account-free collaboration? Other than IRC, non-google-group mailing lists, and wikis; I can't think of ways to accomplish that. I think the reality is that most online services nowadays require an account of some sort. One user in the community is working on a new Open Steno wiki and that may allow for anonymous contributions?

Maybe a good checklist to go down when we organize an event is:

1. Events page on OSP site

2. The Plover Blog

3. Discord event + announcement

4. Google Group

5. Subreddit

Cheers,

Ted

[Kelly Garland]

I'd like to be a part of your group please, Mirabai.

Thank you, Kelly Garland

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[Dave Ruby]

I'm also interested in the group and getting to go the meet up. Is there gonna be one in NYC?

[Mirabai Knight]

No concrete plans to have an NYC Open Steno Meetup currently, but if we get one together at some point I'll definitely post the information here as well as on the Discord and the Plover Blog!

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