I don't contribute here much either, but still read it whenever there's some interesting discussion.
I welcome the move. However, I think most people would jump straight to their favourite search engines/StackOverflow when they have an issue. So I think that's part of why this last has become so inactive. >From what I'm recall, this list (in its' original form as 'aus-dotnet' and hosted by Dr Pete) had been around since .NET 1.0 (and probably earlier), so I'd be sad to see it disappear altogether. I think I've been a member since around 2002/3? >From a nostalgia standpoint, I'd like to see the same name continue but make it clear that we welcome all. Will On 4 April 2017 at 09:55, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > So far no negative responses. We'll do some trialing to make sure > Discourse is all it says. > > We do need to decide as a group of we wish to continue the focus on Aussie > dotnet Devs, or expand it to include other Aussie developers. Is there a > difference these days? Naming is important and refactoring is harder when > it involves a domain name. > > What do people self promote as these days? Is it still fine calling > yourself a DotNet developer when we spend so much time with so many other > things these days? > > Personally I still identify as a .Net developer so think we should stick > with the name we have (even though other topics are often discussed). > Just thought I'd ask in case there are other opinions. > > cheers, > Stephen > > On 4 Apr. 2017 7:07 am, Glen Harvy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know I don't contribute much but I do support the move although the move > will likely not increase participation in itself. > > If you want to increase participation then we will need to promote the > echoes and if at all possible gain some support from generous benefactors. > Getting a web site presence is step 1 as far as I can suggest. > > Glen. > > On 3/04/2017 4:30 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > > It's been some years since the big move to Mr Connors gracious hosting of > the eList. Thanks for that by the way David! > > For whatever reason it lives on, despite the low traffic. Perhaps it's the > entertainment value of people who live/vent there. Hard to measure. I > expect David would have a way to tell how many people are still on the > list. > > I do think Aussie developers deserve/need our own identity, and our own > community. Well, it does exist but I do wonder if other forums might better > suit the needs (and yet still we are here with people subscribed...). > > As an Admin of the current group (workload of said role is rather low. ie > It's been almost ten years since I had to do anything Admin like. The Admin > list seems to be gone) > > I've noticed that Discourse.org now exists and is open source. And Free. > And has code highlighting built in. And also has elist delivery out of the > box. As well as a web interface if that floats your boat. Ticks all the > boxes from what we were looking for many years ago. > > Full feature list is here https://www.discourse.org/about/ > > I'd like to propose we move to it and actively promote it once it's all up > and running. Given the lists currently existing cover a few different > topics, not just AusDotNet, we should move them all over. Except > Silverlight. Don't even talk to me about that. Just don't. Ok? > > Seriously, stop looking at me. > > So how do we brand it? OzDev? Did we ever end up with a domain name? It > would be a good time to get one if not. > > The best part about this is David will have to do most of the work, but if > we still have any Admins left on this list (maybe it's just me and David?) > assistance would be good, just put your hand up. > > I have a fond memory of the AusDotNet list and have been on it for my > entire developer career. It's been invaluable. Time to bring it kicking and > screaming into the Internet of today, a limelight for fellow Aussie > developers both existing, and yet to be. We have a big community and I'd > like to be able to give back to it. > > Will do some work on a logo (or outsource it to my daughter who'd doing a > graphic design degree)... > > Discuss. > Stephen > > > > >
