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

Wed Jul 24 03:45:51 PDT 2019

Hi Sanket,

Github discussions are definitely available for free, I'm testing it right
now :-)

Jo

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:40 AM Sanket Totewar <sanket at totewar.com> wrote:

> I sent a message earlier but it needs approval from a moderator as I
> attached images and the message size exceeded 100kb.
>
> Jo, regarding your earlier email, if I am not mistaken, Github discussions
> are available under Github teams <https://github.com/pricing> which is a
> paid version (per user).
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:31 PM 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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