[SeasonOfDocs] Email list research

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Sanket, did your research into email list options identify anything 
worth passing on?

Cheers, Cameron

On 1/8/19 7:32 am, Sanket Totewar wrote:
> 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.
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:25 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jo.k.cook at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've been doing a little more digging into GitHub Discussions.
>
>     Good:
>
>     * hosted and free (at the moment)
>     * you can align them with organisational teams, which would mean
>     we could have one list for website discussion, another one for PSC
>     etc.
>     * definitely searchable, but it's a little early to tell how
>     manageable they are going to be with a large number of messages.
>     * 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
>
>
>     Bad things:
>     * There's also no explicit statement on archiving them,
>     potentially they will survive as long as the organisation does.
>     * They might transition to being a paid-for function at some point
>
>     I'm not wedded to them, but it appeals to my sense of neatness to
>     keep everything together :-)
>
>     Jo
>
>
>
>     On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 1:32 PM Cameron Shorter
>     <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         On 31/7/19 7:21 pm, Jo Cook wrote:
>>
>>          *
>>
>>             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.
>>
>         Sanket, expanding on what I think requirements are:
>
>         * For long term sustainability it is important to keep things
>         as simple and low maintenance as possible.
>
>         * We want conversations archived and searchable (by google is
>         ok). Eg:
>         https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/seasonofdocs/2019-July/thread.html
>
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