Yes the main benefit would be to bring everybody at the same place. I think that currently the problem is that newcomers are using the forums, but most active users are still using the mailing list, and moderators should be easier to find from active users than newcomers. In my case for example, I'm OK to do some minor moderation work, but I never volunteered for the forums as it's something I'm not using and I'm not willing to.
Apart from that it seems than migrating from mailman to Google Groups seems to be quite common, and by googling a bit you can find how to import all the contacts easily. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Robert Osfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Art, > > On 31 July 2013 11:04, Art <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you switch to the google groups you would have to do moderator work > > again. Then, I wonder, what improvement do you get from it. The glue > between > > the forum and the mailing list works well, however, might not even work > for > > google groups. I can't see, why google groups would help here. > > googlegroups would replace both [email protected] and > forum.openscenegraph.org, users of the googlegroups can decide how > they want to use google groups either via email or via the online > forum style interface. > > We would still need to do moderation work but at least it'd be in one > place, so we'd avoid the need to the admin side for both the mailing > list and the forum and a small amount of overlap on the moderations > side. On the mailing list side I typically only need to handle a > couple of moderation items per month handling cases when users post > attachments that exceed the amount listed, it's not much but > effectively other moderators could help with this, I could help with > moderation on the other side when need be - the advantage is pooling > manpower. > > Robert. > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > -- Serge Lages
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