Many thanks Russell for this Tour de Force which captures a lot of information and structures it in a form suitable to support a project to suggest one or more candidate solutions to the requirements expressed by Nigel. Thank you also for the appreciation.
I also agree with your second paragraph that this is the sort of task that Group members can not only contribute to and learn from but also coalesce around and develop a collaborative approach where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Progress could be reported at the monthly meetings and any issues addressed. I just have one note of caution. The mailing list is publicly available on the internet and is indexed by the various search engine bots. In fact I have once had my own post quoted back to me in an online search. Therefore some care is required in what we say and NVR may not appreciate their requirements and activities being aired in public. Also we are not privy to their internal discussions and our assumptions could well be incorrect. Here we are working with Nigel who is acting in a private capacity and we may collectively come up with some ideas that shape and inform the NVR solution or perhaps inform them on what not to do but we have no formal connection with them. In this case I believe NVR would have preferred we had not mentioned them in this particular context. This is just one of the many reasons I believe the mailing list is an unsuitable vehicle for solving anything more complex than the simplest of problems. I am putting together the notes from the meeting at the moment and they will include the fact that we recognised we needed a better vehicle for our collaborative activity and I took an action to look at Discord for this role. This is my next task after publishing the meeting notes. So, thanks again Russell for your great brain download. I have quite a number of comments and suggestions as I am sure do others but I would be grateful for a little patience while I report back to the group my findings and we confirm a suitable collaboration platform, be it Discord or something else. We only have to decide once and it should take no more than a few days. Perhaps Mark could consult the Lugmaster group to see what they recommend and/or what other groups are using. Regards, Clive -- Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
