Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-02-05 Thread Yosem Companys
> > Very related to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571893 > > IMDb is deleting its message boards on Feb 20 > http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement > > Cheers, > > JMM. We had a same experience with the draft for General Clark in 2004. Yahoo Groups deleted our message board

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-02-05 Thread José María Mateos
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 07:26:32AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Of course there are always people who rush to the latest greatest thing (e.g., Slack appears to be popular right now) because it's new and shiny, but those come and go, and they depend on the vagaries of the companies behind them.

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-02-03 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 07:30:15PM -0500, Jos? Mar?a Mateos wrote: > I think what you are describing is better accomplished by software like > Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/), which is the discussion engine > behind popular sites such as BoingBoing.net. This, however, presents the > danger

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-02-02 Thread José María Mateos
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 04:08:06PM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: That's a great idea, José María. So you would like to see a new mailing list? What would you suggest we call it? Miscellaneous? I've never administered any mailing list of this size (I think the largest had something like 15

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-02-02 Thread Yosem Companys
That's a great idea, José María. So you would like to see a new mailing list? What would you suggest we call it? Miscellaneous? We are in the process of building a community blog for Liberationtech that would allow up/down voting of topics, polling, and other capabilities. Word Press is the gold

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-02-02 Thread José María Mateos
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:00:57PM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: We also have a series of listservs on topics related to Liberationtech. The most important lists are the following: - Events: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech-events - Jobs:

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-02-01 Thread Yosem Companys
Thanks, Bram. Noted. In the spirit of democracy, we are going to compile all the feedback we get, tabulate it, and send it to the list once it's done. Then, we will start working on some of the projects and hopefully subscribers will volunteer whatever they can to make them happen. On Wed, Feb

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-02-01 Thread Bram Wets
Hi Yosem and all, Thanks for the invitation to share some ideas for Liberationtech. Idea 1: An idea list where the Liberationtech community can post ideas for projects, upvote (and downvote) them, put your name with an idea to contribute. This would facilitate your call for ideas/projects

[liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder

2017-01-31 Thread Yosem Companys
We are Stanford Liberatiiontech. Our home page is here: http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech. To sign up to our 4K-strong mailing list, click here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. We have also curated a list of Liberationtech content at