The new Ning community - some central questions

[Denise Tennen]

Dear Holger

I would love to see integration.  I am new to this list, and the  
thought of signing up somewhere else and having to check a new thing  
is rather daunting.

My first response to the Ning thing was "ohmygod, now I'll have to  
check two places".

Then, hearing about all the other sites I have reacted by going into  
overwhelm and deciding that I will just stick with the listserv.

Now hearing you say that  the Ning thing is growing apace I notice I  
don't want to find that this listserv interchange becomes non-vital,  
at the same time I still don't want to sign up on a new thing

Integration sounds like it would take care of my reluctance to sign  
up for too many communication vehicles.

thanks for the idea and your willingness to make the idea reality.

Personally I am less interested in having the "right" platform for  
this interchange and more interested in reading lots of subject  
matter such as Rose's communication about bullying within an open  
space event, and others' sharing their experiences around that.

Denise
On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Holger Nauheimer (Change Facilitation)  
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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