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

Jo Cook jo.k.cook at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 12:07:31 PDT 2019 

Totally.

Is it time for a confirmatory vote then:

.org and .dev, purchased from Google, Cameron to get the first and Jo to
get the second?

Hopefully that doesn't need to be multiple votes...

Jo

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, 19:57 Erin McKean, <emckean at google.com> wrote:

> I think we should get the domains without making decisions about email for
> now.
>
> My preference would be to have catchall email addresses for *functions* of
> the project (eg "contact at thegooddocs.dev", "help at thegooddocs.dev") rather
> than have project members have individual email addresses at the domain.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Erin
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 3:47 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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