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[Fusl Dash <opennic AT lists.dedilink.eu>]

Haven't digged into it very much but it doesn't look closed source: 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse

What you probably mean is Slack

On 2017-04-19 22:27, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> This isn't the closed-source mobile app that everyone was suggesting to 
> replace IRC is it? If so, I want nothing to do with it.
> 
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> -Dan Q
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> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:49:10 +0000, Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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>> Maybe that's indication it needs to be replaced.
>>
>> Jonah
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:48 PM Maiyannah Bishop <
>> maiyannah.bishop AT postactiv.com> wrote:
>>
>>> One of these days I'll get an email from this list that isn't someone
>>> pitching an alternative to the mailing list.
>>> -mb
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2017-04-19 13:45, Jonah Aragon wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose moving our Mailing List and long form discussion to a
>>> new platform, Discourse (http://www.discourse.org/). Most of this post
>>> will probably sound like a Discourse ad (sorry), but I want to make sure
>>> everyone understands why we should switch.
>>>
>>> Discourse is a discussion platform that doubles as both a web based
>>> internet forum and mailing list management software. I think we should
>>> switch primarily because of the forum's benefits to our community: having
>>> an easily accessible discussion platform for planning and proposing topics
>>> is an issue for us at the moment, in my opinion. The mailing list can be
>>> difficult to understand for newcomers, and I suspect many people might be
>>> overwhelmed after joining, and won't participate.
>>>
>>> Having a forum for our community would make it easier for users to
>>> register (and we could potentially include SSO for integration with our
>>> current Members system), and Discourse serves that purpose especially well
>>> with a clean interface that's easy for most newcomers to get a feel for.
>>>
>>> Discourse also supports many different integrations/plugins (
>>> https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=topic%3Adiscourse-plugin&type=Repositories&ref=searchresults),
>>> for example, a voting plugin in particular (
>>> https://github.com/discourse/discourse-voting) would be a great addition
>>> to our current system, as it would allow for easy tabulation on new
>>> proposals.
>>>
>>> We could also categorize posts. We don't need (or want) to be notified by
>>> every single question newcomers might have, but we certainly don't want to
>>> discourage those kinds of posts. We could create a Q/A category with less
>>> pronounced notifications (or individual users can change their 
>>> notification
>>> preferences from the defaults) so you can make sure you only need to see
>>> important discussions in the future.
>>>
>>> And finally, in addition to all the forum benefits, *Discourse can also
>>> serve as a mailing list*, for those of us who truly prefer email based
>>> discussions like this. In your user profile there would be an option to
>>> enable "Mailing list mode", which would send individual emails for either
>>> all posts or categories you wish to hear from on a regular basis. 
>>> Switching
>>> should be a win-win for all community members, mailing list users will get
>>> to keep existing functionality, and we could gain a great new discussion
>>> platform, which will hopefully get more people to join in.
>>>
>>> If you all agree, I can spin up a Discourse server immediately and get
>>> everything working. I've managed a few Discourse communities for a while
>>> now so everything can be taken care of. I have server space at 
>>> DigitalOcean
>>> to run it with redundancy so we don't have any issues with our platform
>>> going offline in the future.
>>>
>>> If you have any questions, please reply and I'll try to answer them. I'm
>>> also available on OpenNIC's IRC channel on Freenode (as jonaharagon).
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading all that, I'm hoping we'll be able to setup a new forum
>>> soon!
>>>
>>> Jonah
>>>
>>>
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