[governance] IGC

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 07/12/2009, at 5:56 AM, Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google wrote:

> 1. Evolve the dialog away from the dated mailing/discussion list  
> format towards a more transparent and open Social Networking &  
> Collaboration platform - I recommend that Marc Andreessen's and  
> Giani Bianchini's brilliant Ning technology be used as opposed to  
> the somewhat restricted Facebook, Orkut, and the like. Establishment  
> of appropriate IGC presences on Twitter, Scribd and YouTube will  
> also be useful. Utilization of emerging solutions such as Google  
> Wave should be explored. Enterprise solutions such as Social Text,  
> Lotus Connections are also available if a more robust solution is  
> desirable.

It's a good suggestion, however apart from the other reservations that  
have been expressed about this, I would not like to see us move to a  
proprietary hosted platform, which could compromise our independence.  
Sympa is open source software which can be hosted anywhere by anyone,  
so if we want to migrate the list including all its archives to  
another server at no cost, we can easily do so.  It's for the same  
reason that I have been critical of the IGF for switching to a  
proprietary Web conferencing system, WebEx, over the open source one  
DimDim that was used last year.

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