I know I don't contribute much but I do support the move although the
move will likely not increase participation in itself.
If you want to increase participation then we will need to promote the
echoes and if at all possible gain some support from generous
benefactors. Getting a web site presence is step 1 as far as I can suggest.
Glen.
On 3/04/2017 4:30 PM, Stephen Price wrote:
It's been some years since the big move to Mr Connors gracious hosting
of the eList. Thanks for that by the way David!
For whatever reason it lives on, despite the low traffic. Perhaps it's
the entertainment value of people who live/vent there. Hard to
measure. I expect David would have a way to tell how many people are
still on the list.
I do think Aussie developers deserve/need our own identity, and our
own community. Well, it does exist but I do wonder if other forums
might better suit the needs (and yet still we are here with people
subscribed...).
As an Admin of the current group (workload of said role is rather low.
ie It's been almost ten years since I had to do anything Admin like.
The Admin list seems to be gone)
I've noticed that Discourse.org now exists and is open source. And
Free. And has code highlighting built in. And also has elist delivery
out of the box. As well as a web interface if that floats your boat.
Ticks all the boxes from what we were looking for many years ago.
Full feature list is here https://www.discourse.org/about/
<https://www.discourse.org/about/>
I'd like to propose we move to it and actively promote it once it's
all up and running. Given the lists currently existing cover a few
different topics, not just AusDotNet, we should move them all over.
Except Silverlight. Don't even talk to me about that. Just don't. Ok?
Seriously, stop looking at me.
So how do we brand it? OzDev? Did we ever end up with a domain name?
It would be a good time to get one if not.
The best part about this is David will have to do most of the work,
but if we still have any Admins left on this list (maybe it's just me
and David?) assistance would be good, just put your hand up.
I have a fond memory of the AusDotNet list and have been on it for my
entire developer career. It's been invaluable. Time to bring it
kicking and screaming into the Internet of today, a limelight for
fellow Aussie developers both existing, and yet to be. We have a big
community and I'd like to be able to give back to it.
Will do some work on a logo (or outsource it to my daughter who'd
doing a graphic design degree)...
Discuss.
Stephen
