Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

On 7 July 2016 at 17:10, Brian Prangle wrote: > Great to see so much enthusiasm for a website and associated tools. [snip] > Where have we got to with domain name? OSMF already have openstreetmap.org.uk (http://www.nominet.uk/whois/?query=openstreetmap.org.uk#whois-results).

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

Great to see so much enthusiasm for a website and associated tools. Before we go too far down the road of tool selection would anyone care to draw up a requirements specification? What do we want the website to look like and what do we want it do for us? Some from me would include: Shopfront

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

Yes. We do have hosting. Geolytix is sponsoring a 1GB cloud server with DigitalOcean. I have setup the one-click wordpress site for now but we can of course setup any combination of apps on that server. ___ Talk-GB mailing list

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My tuppence: I've not used it, but loomio looks great. If we decide to go with it I'm happy to install it somewhere (do we have OSMUK hosting), but if all we need is the simple version then $190 per year for their hosted version seems good value (and means one less thing to maintain) -

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also there is https://openslides.org/ although I think this is probably overkill. On 1 July 2016 at 11:02, Christian Ledermann wrote: > Have you considered/evaluated https://www.discourse.org/ ? > I have used it (plone community, OKFN) and am quite fond of it > The

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

Have you considered/evaluated https://www.discourse.org/ ? I have used it (plone community, OKFN) and am quite fond of it The email integration is very nice, you can get email push notifications and respond to discussions via email. I have not used loomio yet so I do not know how they compare On

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

BTW here are my notes from when I researched collaboration tools (focused on communication and decision making, rather than projects) https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Z9vCilV96Tah5ruGFTIaSGxojEC9pvHo48Sc4vw5_Y/edit?usp=sharing Feel free to add comments. *Rob* p.s. I'm aware that OSMF use

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

>I actually just created a poll for the most suitable web platform for OSMUK. > >- Community Blog (blogger) >- Static Webpage >- Wiki >- Loomio >- Slack (i don't really get it) >- Maillist (talk-gb) > Thanks Dennis, To be clear, I'm not saying that Loomio should be our only web presence - in

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

On 29/06/2016 19:57, Rob Nickerson wrote: So here is my 100 day plan (the first general meeting is a given so not included here): 1. Create a portal for discussion and decision making. I hate to tell you but talk-gb sucks. In fact mailing lists in general suck. They work well for techy people

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

So here is my 100 day plan (the first general meeting is a given so not included here): 1. Create a portal for discussion and decision making. I hate to tell you but talk-gb sucks. In fact mailing lists in general suck. They work well for techy people but don't appeal to Aunty Jane. If we want

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 18:55 +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Unity Trust has also been recommended to us. They support online > signing with definable limits and multiple signatories, and don't > charge a fee. > > https://www.unity.co.uk/ > The ramblers use unity trust, each group is supposed to.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

Unity Trust has also been recommended to us. They support online signing with definable limits and multiple signatories, and don't charge a fee. https://www.unity.co.uk/ *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

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I have taken the liberty of asking my online accountant, Crunch, whether they would do a freebie/discount for a CIC. They would be able to sort out banking as they get a small referral fee. A number of banks do special accounts for CICs but I don't see a huge difference between them and business

[Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

Hi everyone The final Articles of Association have now been available for some weeks and have attracted no comments, so I think it's safe to say we can go ahead now and start the process of incorporation. We have 5 names for