Hello everyone, I haven't posted for ages either, partially I think because the (extreme!) specifics of what I'm doing are usually covered elsewhere, but where I think this group really excels with the higher level discussions - I am still learning about new options via the list and I really like the local factor (and even took it overseas with me when I worked overseas for a while - like a thread to home). I will follow the crowd, and maybe even try to contribute a bit more since you've brought us all out of our shells with this question Stephen!
Emily On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 at 00:37 Matthew Lam <lammp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, Been following since I started my career too. Wouldn't a Reddit > channel work well here? And you still get the benefit of getting a lot of > the nice things like being notified on my phone.. > > Cheers Matt > > On 4 Apr 2017 10:15 PM, "Stephen Price" <step...@lythixdesigns.com> wrote: > > If it pans out how I hope, the crowd will be right here in your inbox > where you left em. > > If it doesn't do elist then its a fail and we'll leave it as it is. > > > Doesn't mean we can't create a pretty website (if we don't go with > Discourse) and put together some stickers and tshirts etc. Spread the word > around and get more members. I'd like to get Discourse up and running first > as I think it would be better for new members to not have to change a week > after joining the list. > > > Dang, my oldest email goes back to 02/12/2002. That's impressive. A lot > has changed over the years! > You guys are awesome, this list has helped me heaps over those 15ish > years. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on > behalf of Adrian Halid <adr...@halid.com.au> > *Sent:* Tuesday, 4 April 2017 7:29:33 PM > *To:* 'ozDotNet' > *Subject:* RE: Ozdotnet list > > > Will follow the crowd. +1 for the email list format. > > > > > > Regards > > > > Adrian Halid > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *noonie > *Sent:* Tuesday, 4 April 2017 7:24 PM > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Subject:* Re: Ozdotnet list > > > > Happy to move and follow the crowd. I really do like the list format > though. > > > > Gmail does a really good job with it and I'm afraid that I might just > slide away if I had to visit yet another website :-p > > > > Lists are old fashioned but, like bow ties, they're still cool after all > these years. > > > > -- > > noonie > > > > > > > > > > On 3 Apr. 2017 17:00, "Stephen Price" <step...@lythixdesigns.com> 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/ > > > > 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 > >
