Hi all On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 01:51 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: [...] > One comment: > > - I'd strongly suggest that any new tool we introduce comes with a > commitment to shutdown / discourage at least one (but better more!) > existing tool. We'll otherwise quickly get to https://xkcd.com/927/ ;) > > So if https://democraciaos.org/ is to solve the > too-many-communication-channels problem - are we then shutting down > IRC/Telegram, or even the mailing lists?
IMHO IRC/Telegram and mailing lists have different aims. One is for "instant communication" the other is for "more complex discussions". I love mailing lists and was quite "shocked", when other big F/OSS projects started to move away (see for example [0]). However at some point I realized, that the hurdles to participate in discussion on mailing lists are indeed too high([1]) for many people. I'm not sure if killing all mailing lists is what I would propose - but why not discussing to move most of the "non developer" lists to something like discourse (and migrate AskBot as well)? Some half-baked thoughts: * Talk to e.g. the Gnome folks about their experience regarding Discourse * Discuss a migration of AskBot to tool xyz -> could be Discourse or whatever people like * Discuss migrating a set of mailinglists to the same tool Thoughts? [0] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2019-February/msg00001.html [1] Younger people don't have an e-mail address anymore, signing up requires too man steps, spam is an issue, most people don't know how to quote mails, etc. All the best, Nicolas -- Nicolas Christener, Deputy Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
