Hello listen-dev,
I'm Dimitris, the technical administrator of openesf.net &
openfsm.net. Both sites are based on OpenCore which integrates listen
to provide mailing lists to activist projects. The most important
functionality missing from those sites is the ability to appoint a
special role to trusted listadmins that would allow them to subscribe
others directly to mailing lists, without requiring their explicit
confirmation.
The problem is the following: In most political/activist meetings, the
organizers collect lots of emails from interested people, but in order
get them subscribed in a mailing list they need to invite them first.
However, most of them do not expect such a message understand why they
are receiving the invitation message and what exactly they need to do
to complete their subscription, so they never get subscribed in most
cases. As a result of this issue, many important social forum projects
have been abandoning openfsm/esf in favor of other systems.
So, in order to rectify this I am planning to:
1. define a new "Trusted list admin" role and a special permission
assigned to it
2. add a "subscribe directly" option in the list membership page which
will only be available to the users with the above permission. When
this option is selected, the new members will get subscribed without
having to confirm their membership. They will receive a message
informing them of their subscription and providing instructions on how
to get unsubscribed
3. replace the email input box in the manage membership page with a
textarea in order to allow inviting/subscribing multiple email
addresses at once.
Since the above changes seem to be generally useful, I've been
thinking that the best course of action is to contribute the above
modifications to the development repository of listen.
So, does anyone have any objections? If not, who can give me svn access?
Cheers,
Dimitris Moraitis
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