[SeasonOfDocs] 9:39 AM The Good Docs Project status meeting 24 Jul summary

Jo Cook jo.k.cook at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 03:38:53 PDT 2019


Hi Sanket,

You're correct, I hadn't made the connection that we would need to purchase
GSuite separately, thanks for the heads up!

I'm familiar with your email forwarding approach as I use it myself, but
that decision is something that would need further discussion with the PSC.

All the best

Jo

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:32 AM Sanket Totewar <sanket at totewar.com> wrote:

> We need not use GSuite as I have hacked my way around it.
>
> I purchased www.totewar.com using Google Domains from my email id
> totewar.sanket at gmail.com
>
> However, I set up email forwarding as shown below:
> [image: Screen Shot 2019-07-24 at 20.22.49.png]
>
> This makes sure that each email sent to sanket at totewar.com or
> website at totewar.com goes to sanket.totewar at gmail.com which is another of
> my email ids. And when I am using the official Gmail apps, or am logged in
> to Gmail using a browser, I get a chance to reply from either
> sanket.totewar at gmail.com or sanket at totewar.com (such as this very email).
>
> [image: Screen Shot 2019-07-24 at 20.24.25.png]
>
> I then set this up as a filter so I use my personal inbox (
> sanket.totewar at gmail.com) but get all emails in a different folder.
>
> Using this method, we can have up to 100 free email ids without having to
> purchase the GSuite. I'd be happy to set this up for us all and you can
> continue to use your personal email ids but have access to *yourname at thegooddocsproject.org
> <yourname at thegooddocsproject.org>* or any other format we decide as the
> email standard. The only caveat is that you need to use the original Google
> account when you need to 'Sign is using Google' or use 'Google Docs' or
> other services, which I reckon is okay for the time being. 😎
>
> Best Regards,
> Sanket Totewar
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 7:22 PM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just to clarify the discussion about domains- I think we discussed having
>> thegooddocsproject.org and .dev, and agreed we'd purchase both, with
>> Cameron and Jo covering the costs until we have some legal entity that can
>> cover it. Amirite?
>>
>> Cameron- I was going to go to Google Domains (thanks to Sanket for the
>> heads up about that)- does that sound OK to you? It gets us custom email
>> with GSuite, which might also mean we can have more people on a hangout...
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:05 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> As a response to the question about options for moving off the season of
>>> docs mailing list, does anyone have any experience of using GitHub
>>> Discussions? https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-team-discussions
>>>
>>> I was thinking that it might meet our requirements for organisational
>>> discussions about tGDP, but that we'd potentially need to investigate other
>>> options for more public discussions, unless we allow anyone to join the
>>> wider organisation (in a github sense) and then have separate teams for PSC
>>> etc. I haven't yet found anything about long-term archiving of discussions
>>> either.
>>>
>>> A big plus from my perspective would be that it ticks our boxes for
>>> keeping things simple with no single point of ownership.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 7:42 AM Felicity Brand <felicitybrand at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks, let me know if I got anything wrong here. I did tune out a
>>>> few times 😬
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Attendees
>>>>
>>>> Cameron, Erin, Felicity, Jennifer, Jo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Covered:
>>>>
>>>>    1. Confirmed to use Markdown as default format.
>>>>    2. Confirmed PSC. Chair TBD.
>>>>    3. Discussed license selection and possible legal entities to use.
>>>>       1. Include a page on the website explaining our license choice
>>>>       2. Include a  link to a 'license chooser' (or some kind of
>>>>       license primer) on our website.
>>>>    4. Discussed website.
>>>>       1. General agreement against a CMS and to start simple.
>>>>       2. Netlify limits admin seats/users. Would like to hear from
>>>>       Erin about Docsy (unfortunately she had to drop off).
>>>>       3. Domain - Jo and Cameron to donate funds to secure both
>>>>       "thegooddocs" and "thegooddocsproject".  Did we decide on ".dev"?
>>>>    5. Twitter. We need to securely store the password somehow -
>>>>    LastPass? Jo to get the handle from Sanket.
>>>>    6. Email list. We should move off OSGeo Season of Docs. Perhaps
>>>>    create a Google Group. Needs further research.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Action
>>>>
>>>> Owner
>>>>
>>>> Send email to propose Chair of PSC.
>>>>
>>>> Jo
>>>>
>>>> Erin to send email confirming our license selection and what Google
>>>> told her.
>>>>
>>>> Erin
>>>>
>>>> Add CC-By license to governance repo so Erin can contribute
>>>>
>>>> Felicity
>>>>
>>>> Start content for website - add to Jo's document.
>>>>
>>>> Cameron
>>>>
>>>> Add to source template list
>>>>
>>>> Erin
>>>>
>>>> Take a stab at drafting our core values and mission
>>>>
>>>> Jennifer
>>>>
>>>> Open a discussion about Netlify on the email list
>>>>
>>>> Jennifer
>>>>
>>>> Open a discussion about Google Groups on the email list
>>>>
>>>> Cameron
>>>>
>>>>
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