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

[Michael Herman via OSList]

bother.  autocorrect.  apparently my phone doesn't know oslist initiator
Murli Nagasundaram or it wouldn't have turned him to murkier in my previous
message.


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Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
312-280-7838 (mobile)

http://MichaelHerman.com
http://OpenSpaceWorld.org


On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
wrote:
>
> 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> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
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> Michael Herman
> Michael Herman Associates
> 312-280-7838 (mobile)
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> http://MichaelHerman.com
> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
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