The new Ning community - some central questions

[Tree Fitzpatrick]

I am all for change.  I like the ning website. For many, email is getting to
be old fashioned.  I read the oslist mail less and less. . . years ago, I
used to comment all the time. Now, I don't hang out by email.

I hope folks have conversations at the ning site.

I am thinking of how a large boa constrictor sheds it's old skin. Such a
snake slowly slides right out of its old 'skin', the new skin emerging
simultaneously as the old skin is slaked away.

I am stunned to read your statement, Holger, that OS people don't like to
change.  OS is change.

I would like it if it is possible to link this email list to the new ning
but I hope the ning becomes our main way of maintaining the worldwide OS
community.



On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Holger Nauheimer (Change Facilitation) <
holger at change-facilitation.org> wrote:

> It is really fascinating to see how quick the new Ning group is growing
> (http://openspaceworld.ning.com/). I predict that in 2 weeks, we will have
> like 200-300 members, and growing. In particular I like that we will have
> country specific subgroups, and that might be the main focus of the Ning
> group in the future. But it might also be that it will become the major
> platform for our community.
>
> However, the Ning group raises a central question: in case, the group will
> convert into a major network platform for the OS community, what will
> happen
> with the OS Mailing List?
>
> As I have posted on the Ning today, I vote for maintaining this Listserv
> for
> quite a while, and continuing to use this as the main discussion forum.
> People got used to it, and in my experience, the OS folks are among the
> most
> change resistant people that I have met in my life.
>
> In order not to divide the stream of discussion, I am in favour not to have
> a discussion feature at the Ning platform (or, only for the subgroups).
> Otherwise, people will be quite confused on where to post.
>
> I hope that in future all the national / language specific groups will move
> to the Ning platform (however, in the German community there is some strong
> resistance to that).
>
> What I would love to see is an integration of this list with the Ning
> platform. The ideal would be that one can post from here and it appears in
> the Ning platform and the other way round. I am pretty sure that this is
> technically feasible but I have no idea how. It seems that the Listserv
> does
> not support RSS feeds (and I am not sure whether RSS feeds are the
> solution,
> probably not).
>
> If we would agree that integration is a good step, I would do some further
> research and also engage a developer to help us out. Ideas?
>
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