[OSList] “regular lurker” + our OSTLIST web platform

[Michael Herman via OSList]

I think it was about 1998 when murkier, who started the list at boise state
univ, suggested moving the list to a fancy up-and-coming platform called
egroups. It was a threaded discussion email site. In my memory, must be the
biggest and most energized conversation we ever had on this list. In the
end, it was rejected. And where is egroups today?

At openspaceworld.org, since 1999, we have had discussion forums, wiki,
wordpress group blog, but the I think the best thing we did was that I
wrote some "about OST" stuff and artur de silva suggested that it ought to
be in languages other than English. He volunteered to do Spanish
andPortuguese, others did their languages too. The tasks were simple and
defined and got done whenever anyone came forward and offered something.
Now we have links to intro material in 17 languages I think. All completely
unplanned, but supported by just keeping the site online.

In the meantime, there is a Wikipedia page, a Facebook group, a Ning
community, the os hotline, and any number of regional lists and groups and
meet ups of various shapes and frequencies.

it's easy to design and build a site or platform, but yet another thing to
keep it going and up to date. And I don't think we can build anything and
expect it to both replace an established community center and also grow
past it, succeeding where every past effort has not.

At the same time, none of those prior offerings really set out to replace
anything, I think. They all just offered something else. And that is an
approach that seems very open spacey to me, to just do something, try
something, offer something and see what happens. It might displace
everything or nothing, but that won't matter. It's the offering, I think,
that keep us going.

I'm glad to offer sub domain space at openspaceworld.org for anything that
wants building and trying. Done this with many language wikis over the
years.

I'm also getting ready to cleanup at openspaceworld.org, so anyone who
wants to help think and do about that is welcome. It's the one big
site/platform we have that's completely unconstrained by the structures
imposed by service companies like Facebook. So we can do anything we want
there to tie all the other things together, as long as we also find a way
to maintain past contributions.

I always keep looking for ways for openspaceworld.org to virtually
disappear, into just a set of links, something michael pannwitz suggested
to me when the site was still just six months old, and in that way to
suggest and demonstrate that os is much bigger than any of these platforms.

Michael



On Saturday, December 13, 2014, Patricia Haines via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Please don't replace this listserv with something complicated!
>
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> On Dec 13, 2014, at 5:35 AM, Arturo Uscategui-Colaboremos via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
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>
> Dear All,
>
> And what if we set a team to design, develop, deliver and maintain our new
> wonderful OSTLIST web platform, which will be up to the requirements to
> replace this OSLIST?
>
> This team could work on an Agile way.
>
> I’ll be happy to contribute. I don’t know exactly how, but I’ll be there
> to do it together with those who wish to do it also.
>
> ;)
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