Unless most members have non-hcoop-hosted e-mail addresses to receive mailing list e-mails, I would vote for a blog or something like it. I'm not familiar with <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> but it looks very similar to twitter and I think that would work great. Much easier to access than IRC. Thanks.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Richard Darst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rkd@hcoop.net">rkd@hcoop.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:33:54AM +0530, Tanveer Singh wrote:<br>
> I have proposal. Admins can branch it into a new thread if required.<br>
> All our lists are on hcoop itself. So if hcoop goes down, IRC is the only<br>
> channel of communitcation, and from work etc., its not possible to access<br>
> IRC due to firewall issues.<br>
> So it would be great if we moved the lists to google groups or something<br>
> like that so that when services go down, somebody can holler and a mail gets<br>
> sent to all the admins.<br>
<br>
</div>This seems to be a good idea to me. Do you think a mailing list is<br>
best (should everyone get mail when something happens? What should<br>
the threshold for mail be: "service down", "working on it", "it's all<br>
up again")?<br>
<br>
What about a blog or <a href="http://identi.ca" target="_blank">identi.ca</a> stream? That way we could post more<br>
frequent updates, and only those interested need check - and could<br>
always subscribe to the rss feeds, and more frequent updates here<br>
would be less annoying to some people.<br>
<br>
For those that don't actively follow things on IRC, what would be<br>
useful to you?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Regarding adding more admins, there are some tasks which may not require<br>
> much technical expertise, for example, rebooting all machines.<br>
> So for that even I can be an admin as I know basic unix and scripting and<br>
> can install a Linux OS on a home machine. But thats the peak of my<br>
> capability.<br>
<br>
</div>The current senior admins can see, but this specific thing was more of<br>
an exception with several travelers and me not yet quite added. And,<br>
rebooting is more complicated than it seems... as we figured out this<br>
morning.<br>
<br>
We'll keep trying to involve more people. I think the most important<br>
thing is to get known by the community.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for your ideas,<br>
<br>
- Richard<br>
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