Happy to move and follow the crowd. I really do like the list format though.
Gmail does a really good job with it and I'm afraid that I might just slide away if I had to visit yet another website :-p Lists are old fashioned but, like bow ties, they're still cool after all these years. -- noonie On 3 Apr. 2017 17:00, "Stephen Price" <[email protected]> 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 > >
