As long as the post volume is similar to what's in this email list or slightly higher, I'd be willing to be a moderator.
To my merits: * Ran a small-to-midsize (~150 person) discord for my college board game club, so have some experience * Willing to organize the forum, delete spam, direct conversation back on-topic if it veers, and deal with the very occasional bad actor To my dismerits: * Absolutely not an expert in Genode or Sculpt * New to the community, don't have any real trust or reputation yet * Not willing to handle a large volume of posts or a contentious communinity (though it doesn't seem like it will be) - Spencer On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, at 9:16 AM, Norman Feske wrote: > Hello everyone, > > recent activity on the mailing list and issue tracker suggests that our > community lacks a public space for causal talk among users. > > The issue tracker is the time-tested workbench of Genode's developers. > As a tool for organizing work and discussing deeply technical topics, it > is not conductive for uninitiated people who wish to get engaged with > the project. > > Our mailing list is an adequate medium to get technical questions > answered, discussing the road map, or to publish announcements. But its > somewhat formal character is inappropriate for causal conversation about > topics merely tangential to Genode. > > The subreddit /r/genode is pretty much deserted. IRC lacks persistence > and structure. > > Recently, I got repeatedly asked for my opinion about creating a > Discourse forum or for unlocking the forum functionality of our GitHub > project. I would leave the latter unconsidered to keep our dependency > from GitHub features at bay. But I'm wondering, would it be worthwhile > to consider opening a forum at Discourse [1]? It is open source and can > in principle be self-hosted. Unlike proprietary SaaS products, all forum > data is portable. > > [1] https://discourse.org > > Our small team of Genode Labs is not able to carry the additional burden > of operating a self-hosted Discourse instance today. But we'd consider > purchasing a forum at discourse.org and cover the expenses. > > As the forum would be a place for users, it should best be operated and > moderated by users, not the Genode developer team. This way, the forum > won't have any corporate smell, everyone can be on eye level, and the > core developer team won't be consumed by additional responsibilities. > > This brings me to the following question: > > Are there volunteers among you who'd like to contribute by assuming the > role of administering and moderating of such a forum? > > Cheers > Norman > > -- > Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske > Genode Labs > > https://www.genode-labs.com · https://genode.org > > Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden > Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.genode.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.genode.org > Archived at > https://lists.genode.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@lists.genode.org/message/6VYVB3KJ6FR6JMCHSV4WEBE5S33M7YT5/ >
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