oslist will end soon -- it's time to deliberate, decide and act

[Harrison Owen]

Harold - will the OSI/US Listserve handle our archives? If so this is a
no-brainer so far as I can see. Go-OSI for sure. 

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Harold
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Hi Michael,

Thanks for all your research on this. There's another option to consider.
The Open Space Institute for the US has managed to start using the free and
open source list serve software that runs and looks almost exactly like the
current ListServe for free using a generous web hosting company that gives
out web host services to U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations.

It takes very little administration - as the Web Hosting company provides a
one click install for the "Mailman" program, which is the List Serve
software which is widely used:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html

And there is even a path to maintain the logs for browsing and searching in
a similar way to how they are searchable and browsable now. It would take a
little techie work - but I'd be happy to help with that.

Even if we didn't want get help from a current 501(c)(3) organization (which
would make it free) going with this kind of solution would only cost about
$100 US a year.

    Harold

On 12/1/10 10:47 AM, Michael Herman wrote: 


1. the oslist will cease to exist in its current form not later than june of
next year.  
2. boise state is migrating their own lists to googlegroups
3. boise state is NOT migrating any archives (so we're on our own with that)
4. our archives will be delivered to us on a single CD
5. they will be in the form of 150 monthly log files (roughly, 12 months x
12 years)
6. these monthly files can be read easily in any text editor
7. they can be read less easily when opened directly in a web browser
application
8. the BEST way to keep the archives and the list going is another l-soft
listserv host org
9. finding another listserv host organization is something anyone can help
with... now!
10. we already have oslist at googlegroups.com set up, so that's available
if/when we want to use it

 

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