Dear Holger
I would love to see integration. I am new to this list, and the
thought of signing up somewhere else and having to check a new thing
is rather daunting.
My first response to the Ning thing was "ohmygod, now I'll have to
check two places".
Then, hearing about all the other sites I have reacted by going into
overwhelm and deciding that I will just stick with the listserv.
Now hearing you say that the Ning thing is growing apace I notice I
don't want to find that this listserv interchange becomes non-vital,
at the same time I still don't want to sign up on a new thing
Integration sounds like it would take care of my reluctance to sign
up for too many communication vehicles.
thanks for the idea and your willingness to make the idea reality.
Personally I am less interested in having the "right" platform for
this interchange and more interested in reading lots of subject
matter such as Rose's communication about bullying within an open
space event, and others' sharing their experiences around that.
Denise
On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Holger Nauheimer (Change Facilitation)
wrote:
It is really fascinating to see how quick the new Ning group is
growing
(http://openspaceworld.ning.com/). I predict that in 2 weeks, we
will have
like 200-300 members, and growing. In particular I like that we
will have
country specific subgroups, and that might be the main focus of the
Ning
group in the future. But it might also be that it will become the
major
platform for our community.
However, the Ning group raises a central question: in case, the
group will
convert into a major network platform for the OS community, what
will happen
with the OS Mailing List?
As I have posted on the Ning today, I vote for maintaining this
Listserv for
quite a while, and continuing to use this as the main discussion
forum.
People got used to it, and in my experience, the OS folks are among
the most
change resistant people that I have met in my life.
In order not to divide the stream of discussion, I am in favour not
to have
a discussion feature at the Ning platform (or, only for the
subgroups).
Otherwise, people will be quite confused on where to post.
I hope that in future all the national / language specific groups
will move
to the Ning platform (however, in the German community there is
some strong
resistance to that).
What I would love to see is an integration of this list with the Ning
platform. The ideal would be that one can post from here and it
appears in
the Ning platform and the other way round. I am pretty sure that
this is
technically feasible but I have no idea how. It seems that the
Listserv does
not support RSS feeds (and I am not sure whether RSS feeds are the
solution,
probably not).
If we would agree that integration is a good step, I would do some
further
research and also engage a developer to help us out. Ideas?
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