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    <p>Hi Sanket, did your research into email list options identify
      anything worth passing on?</p>
    <p>Cheers, Cameron<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/8/19 7:32 am, Sanket Totewar
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          style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sounds good. I have
          meetings with my internal support teams that have used Google
          Groups and a bunch of developers that have explored GitHub
          discussions so I'll share their feedback in a few days.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:25 AM
          Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jo.k.cook@gmail.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">jo.k.cook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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            <div>I've been doing a little more digging into GitHub
              Discussions.</div>
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            <div>Good:</div>
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            <div>* hosted and free (at the moment)<br>
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            <div>* you can align them with organisational teams, which
              would mean we could have one list for website discussion,
              another one for PSC etc. <br>
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            <div>* definitely searchable, but it's a little early to
              tell how manageable they are going to be with a large
              number of messages. <br>
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            <div>* not needing any additional logins- people helping
              with the project will need a github login anyway so we're
              not asking them to sign up to anything extra</div>
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            <div>Bad things:</div>
            <div>* There's also no explicit statement on archiving them,
              potentially they will survive as long as the organisation
              does. <br>
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            <div>* They might transition to being a paid-for function at
              some point</div>
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            <div>I'm not wedded to them, but it appeals to my sense of
              neatness to keep everything together :-)</div>
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            <div>Jo<br>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at
              1:32 PM Cameron Shorter <<a
                href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank"
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                  31/7/19 7:21 pm, Jo Cook wrote:<br>
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                    <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Discussions- currently using an osgeo mailing list, requirement is for hosted (let’s not maintain a server). Github discussions- not clear on archiving, google groups- probably OK but how long are things archived? Let’s discuss via email. ACTION: SANKET to do some research and start email thread discussing requirements.</span></font></p></li>
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                <p><font size="2">Sanket, expanding on what I think
                    requirements are:</font></p>
                <p><font size="2">* For long term sustainability it is
                    important to keep things as simple and low
                    maintenance as possible.</font></p>
                <p><font size="2">* We want conversations archived and
                    searchable (by google is ok). Eg: </font><br>
                  <font size="2"><a
href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/seasonofdocs/2019-July/thread.html"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/seasonofdocs/2019-July/thread.html</a></font></p>
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