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October 2019 Need To Leave Yahoo Groups
What Do We Need
| Category | Needs | Post-Yahoo Groups Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Email List | Way to add/delete members. | |
| Email List | Must support multiple person management | |
| Email List | Archiving of messages and way for later lookup. | |
| File Storage | Way to save presentation handouts | (this wiki) |
| Videos of presentations | Way to collect links to presentations | (this wiki) |
Hosting Options
Options from https://lifehacker.com/how-to-save-and-migrate-your-yahoo-groups-data-before-i-1839172243
| Option | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Groups.io | $110/yr | |
| Google Groups | ||
| works like usual Facebook feed | ||
| Discord | Mostly for gaming and live interactions like when you're playing a game; voice and text chat | |
| Slack | free | 5GB file storage; saves 10k messages, searchable |
| Dreamhost discussion group | free (part of Steve's subscription) | Uses Mailman interface |
Older Discussion on the Topic
From Late 2018 - Early 2019
Desirables for new email list
Currently considering Steve Isenberg's Dreamhost discussion list, lexingtoncomputergroup@toku.us
Features
- Messaging (email distribution list)
- Membership (who receives email)
- Logging presentations (videos of presentations)
- Simple website (a la Weebly) which could include:
- Record of past presentations (Logging of presentations) including Video of presentation, URLs of web pages used in presentation.
- Schedule for upcoming presentations. This would be a fixed place where you
- Blog for occasional articles written by members of importance to all members and of a long lasting nature.
- A “facebook” page (in the true original meaning of the concept) of members names and pictures.
Other Considerations
[John Rudy]
- What do we do with the current system (so we don’t forget anything). This is not the same as “what could be done with the current system?”
- What is done outside the current system (usually by me). I maintain a word document which is reset after each Steering Committee Meeting and then up-reved between meetings. This is periodically distributed and Jonathan Goode uses it for meeting notices.
- What does Jon do for meeting notices? I think he merely shortens what I have in the Word document and then of course he has to distribute it. I suppose that is #2 on Harry’s list [4b above]
- I was thinking that a small group could initially work this and come up with a tentative proposal that appears to meet the needs and is buildable by OUR folks in a reasonable amount of time. Then share this with everyone. The initial group, I suppose, should be anyone who wants to be in it though more than, say, 6 is probably unwieldy
Comments
[Harry]
There is no problem with using two systems – Steve's Mailman is an excellent system used successfully by many, and I have had excellent results with Weebly, having used it since its inception on 2006 for all of my website development. It has all of the multimedia features you could want, and also a good ability for collaboration by multiple editors. It's what I used (with very little investment of time) for the lexcandt.weebly.com website. I used the plan white wrapper theme to avoid wasting my time of dreaming up clever graphics… Seems quite consistent with the Mailman look and feel. Just to show how quick and easy it is, I updated it to reflect the four items mentioned in my list above.
[George]
We should introduce this idea at one of our upcoming meetings and get feedback from the group. Also get feedback from those who don’t/can’t come to the meetings.
[Jonathan] This seems to be clean and nice, but I'm wondering what problem we're trying to solve. Are there things that bother you about our current Yahoo pages? The things that bother me are that Yahoo no longer automatically generates meeting notices from the calendar (and sometimes blocks access to it). Right now, I keep our Yahoo home page (at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LexingtonComputerGroup/management/settings) pretty much up to date. I stopped keeping our calendar (at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LexingtonComputerGroup/events) up to date a few months after it stopped generating meeting notices. I also manually generate meeting notices using the general format of the previously automatically generated notices. Do we need more or different? Is there a calendar facility that will allow automatic notice generation?