[CHAOSS] Opening discussion on using Discourse Forum for CHAOSS

[Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona]

I agree with Daniel. I would also rather prefer that we stick to FOSS
tools & services, as much as possible (I don't think it is necessary to
explain the advantages of FOSS here, so I will skip you all that part).

Saludos,

	Jesus.

On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 13:06 -0800, dmg wrote:
> 
> My opinion:
> 
> - we should let the working groups use whatever tools they want, as
> long as:
>   - the communications are archived, and the archives can be browsed
> without any further credentials
> 
> - for general communication, we should continue to use email
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 8:53 AM Georg Link <glink at unomaha.edu> wrote:
> > Hi CHAOSS community,
> > 
> > I invite you to discuss whether we should start using Discourse
> > and, if so, how we want to go about it.
> > 
> > Background: The CHAOSS project is evolving and over the last 1.5
> > years, we created new mailing lists and abandoned others. We also
> > use GitHub repositories and weekly calls on different days to
> > separate out conversations. From the beginning, we discussed using
> > a flexible forum software, like Discourse, to satisfy our evolving
> > communication needs. In the past, we opted for simplicity but are
> > now hitting the limits.
> > 
> > Discourse agreed to sponsor free hosting for us: 
> > https://discourse.chaoss.community/
> > 
> > On this week's call, a question was asked about email-compatability 
> > of Discourse: Everyone can watch topics on discourse and receive
> > email notifications. Responses can be sent via email.
> > 
> > One concern with using Discourse is that we divide the community
> > across more communication channels. The question is, what is the
> > overall communication strategy within our community? What role does
> > each communication channel (mailing list, IRC, GitHub, Discourse,
> > weekly calls) have?
> > 
> > I open the discussion with my opinion:
> > Discourse allows us to create new categories (like email lists),
> > use tags, and have an organically evolving structure while
> > maintaining all benefits of mailing lists. I think we can
> > transition from email lists to Discourse.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Georg
> > 
> > -- 
> > Georg J.P. Link
> > PhD Candidate
> > College of Information Science and Technology | PKI 367
> > University of Nebraska at Omaha | www.unomaha.edu
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