[PLUG] Mailing List / Issues yet to be sorted out

[Arun Khan]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
<mandarvaze at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Still, we can go for a Google Plus community. Its the latest and a good way
>> to share posts (I personally think so).
>>
>
> https://plus.google.com/communities/113068106699068845393
>

IMO, the posting issue has received the attention it was due.

I second Shyamgopal's suggestion (his Google+ posting) to attend the
PLUG meeting tomorrow.
(I am Mumbai based otherwise I would have attended it definitely)

My personal opinion, we have the following thing going for us:

Pros:
(a) we already have a mailing list,
(b) people are familiar with it,
(c) the archives are public and visible to any search engine
(d) *any* email account works with mailman

What is needed - fix it's configuration.

The Cons on other proposal(s):
(1) Google+ requires a Google account.   Although it is free, I know
some who want to stick with their old accounts.
(2) *all* members here may not sign up in the new forum(s) - inertia.
I know this from personal experience with two lists.

Let us not rush into starting parallel activity.   Let us work
together to make it "the" forum @ Pune for discussing Linux and other
FOSS related topics.

Forking should be the last option (if anyone sincerely feels that
there are no changes after the meeting and discussion thereof)

-- Arun Khan
PS - Although I do participate in forums @ LinkedIn  etc., I prefer
the push mode of mailing lists.