Refinement of recommendations regarding email and forum
Jim, all
25 min
Finishing the work of the task force
All
10 min
Next meeting
All
Notes
Jim presented some thoughts on sourceforge, email, email archives and forum software.
The materials in sourceforge are mostly moveable. Some are obsolete and can be taken down without loss of function. Others would need to be moved.
Email could move to Google Groups, but there is no clear path for the mail archives. Nabble http://www.nabble.com provides a possible solution for the mail archives.
Discourse http://www.discourse.org/ appears to be a leading candidate for forum software. Open source with a reasonable hosting option. Active project. Good uptake. Simple interface.
Possible that email could be used for digests, overviews, mass market type communication and forum software used for more in depth conversation. Similar to the distinction between the web site (lightweight use) and the wiki (more in depth use).
Mike discussed a way forward for the task force to finish it's work