Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Moving the AUDITORY list? From: Matt Flax <flatmax@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 07:41:32 +1100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>On 22/10/18 17:34, Peter P. wrote: > Hi Matt, list, > > * Matt Flax <flatmax@xxxxxxxx> [2018-10-22 06:07]: >> Thanks for the great work Dan it has been super. The many decades of great >> discussions has been fantastic - as well as the general announcements. >> >> Personally I would prefer for it to live on Github, such as with the >> currently empty Hearing Acoustics Audio organisation : >> >> https://github.com/orgs/HearingAcousticsAudio >> >> That organisation I set up particularly for this community as a test for an >> idea to move to something a little more modern which also allows for email >> discussions plus extra functionality. >> >> I would be happy to maintain the group there. Apart from being able to host >> the email list (using the issues tab of general discussion as an example) we >> can also host repositories and archive publications in the same location. >> >> That group is not affiliated with any companies or otherwise - other then >> the host github. I am not sure if that is a concern or not ? > It may be, as can be seen with Sourceforge (the big product before > github) was bought by another company that changed its policies > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies > which prompted many developers to move to github. But the lesson that > can be learned is to not rely on a commercial product, nor store the > valuable list archive there. Yes, I think you have a point here. Github was recently acquired by Microsoft, hmmm. >> If we do happen to move to another email type group, that is ok, but a >> little dated :) > What is bad about dated? Slow and less featured is good I guess, we will still be able to communicate :) Matt