[governance] IGC

[Katitza Rodriguez]

I think, this list is sympa.

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On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> 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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