I agree changing to an open source (aka free) solution makes more sense over keeping it on LISTSERV. Even if we have a successful crowdfunding campaign, we'll be having this conversation again next year around this time.
Jason On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Misi Mladoniczky <m...@rrr.se> wrote: > ** > > Hi, > > To me it also seems like the activity has gone down a lot on the list. > > Transferring to, GNU Mailman should not be that tough I think. And in > addition to that we need to put some archive search capabilities in place > (swish-e?). So all in all there will be some hours needed to get this going. > > I am happy to continue hosting the ARSList on my server, but I think we > need to go to an open source solution. > > Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011) > > Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13) > * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. > * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs > Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se > > September 27, 2017 7:47 AM, "Jason Miller" <jason.mil...@gmail.com > <%22jason%20miller%22%20%3cjason.mil...@gmail.com%3E>> wrote: > > ** > Hello everybody, > It is time again to make some decisions regarding the future of the > ARSlist. Our LISTSERV (the software ARSlist runs on) license expires in a > little over 30 days. Dan, Misi and myself have been discussing where to go > from here. We agree with the current (low) volume of posts that (Dan) > continuing to pay for the ARSlist platform does not make much sense. > Clearly the ARSlist is not providing the value it one was (when it was the > only place to discuss Remedy topics). > The options for the future at this time appear to be: > > - Move the ARSlist to a free mailing list platform. * > - Say goodbye to the ARSlist and shut it down all together. > - Money will come from somewhere to pay the license fee and the > ARSlist lives on for at least another year. > > There is a contingency with the first option. Assuming the platform the > List moves to is not a hosted system in the cloud, Misi, who has been > graciously hosting ARSlist LISTSERV on his server for the last year, will > not be able to make a software switch until after the T3SMAC conference > <http://tooltechtrain.com/> in November. If we give Misi a few days to > hangout in Vegas after the conference, get home, and setup a new mail list > system, we are looking at possibly a few week outage of the ARSlist while > things transition. If we find a platform that is hosted and doesn't require > shell access to Misi's server then I can work on the transition before the > conference. > If anybody see additional options please let me know. Also I am open to > honest feedback. At heart I know none of us want to see the ARSlist go, it > has been here for us for many years. Shutting it down is not something to > be taken lightly. However being practical, do we reject the idea of > shutting down the List based on our feelings and not so much the value it > is providing in 2017? Since this post is really a continuation of a > conversation that started over a year ago, I wonder if maybe the time has > actually come to retire the ARSlist? > Thank you, > Jason > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
