[ckan-dev] [** Important **] Migrating to a new mailing list

[von Waldow, Harald]

On Sat, 2019-11-23 at 11:43 +0100, Ladislav Nesnera wrote:
> A regrettable decision  :-(

Full ACK.

This is poor choice, both, regarding reliability and the mismatch with
what CKAN stands for: A technically sophisticated self-hosted open
source solution.

Neither Link Digital nor Datopian are able to provide a simple mailing-
list for the world’s leading Open Source data portal platform?

Kind regards,
Harald   

> 
> On 2019-11-23 00:57, Adrià Mercader wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > TL;DR:
> > 
> > * This mailing list is shutting down on December 19th, we are
> > migrating to Google Groups (Google account is not required)
> > * You need to manually subscribe to the new mailing list, we can't
> > do that automatically for you (see below for details).
> > 
> > -
> > 
> > The current CKAN mailing lists (ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org and 
> > ckan-announce at lists.okfn.org) have been kindly hosted and
> > maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) for over nine
> > years alongside many other projects and communities centered around
> > open knowledge and data. OKF has decided to discontinue the hosting
> > of all their mailing lists, including the CKAN ones, so we need to
> > find a new home for them.
> > 
> > We will be migrating the mailing lists to new addresses (
> > ckan-dev at ckan.org and ckan-announce at ckan.org). These will be hosted
> > in Google Groups, but a Google account is **not** required to join,
> > and all basic interactions can be done in the same way as the old
> > mailing lists (via email). Details on how to join are provided
> > below and we encourage all current subscribers and those CKAN users
> > who are not subscribed yet to join them.
> > 
> > Some important points:
> > 
> > 1. We will be **not** automatically migrating current subscribers
> > to the new platform due to legal limitations. You must do the
> > registration yourself (it only takes a couple of minutes, see below
> > for details), and you can do so starting from today.
> > 
> > 2. The current lists will be shut down on Thursday December 19th
> > 2019. They will accept new messages until then, but we will ask any
> > new messages to be posted to the new mailing list.
> >    
> > 3. We will be keeping the archives of the current mailing lists
> > public. We believe they are an important knowledge base around the
> > project and have an historical value for the CKAN project. Once we
> > know the final location we will share the details.
> > 
> > Please answer this thread or reach out to our Gitter channel (
> > https://gitter.im/ckan/chat) if you have any questions or concerns
> > about this.
> > 
> > ## How to join the new mailing lists
> > 
> > There are two options depending on whether you want to use a Google
> > account or not. Both will allow the same basic functionality (ie
> > subscribe to new messages on the list, unsubscribe, etc).
> > 
> > ### Option 1: Using a Google account
> > 
> > 1. Sign in with your Google Account on https://groups.google.com
> > 2. Visit the CKAN mailing list you want to join:
> >     * ckan-dev: 
> > https://groups.google.com/a/ckan.org/forum/#!forum/ckan-dev
> >     * ckan-announce: 
> > https://groups.google.com/a/ckan.org/forum/#!forum/ckan-announce
> > 3. Click the "Join Group" blue button next to the group name
> > 
> > 
> > ### Option 2: Using a non-Google email
> > 
> > 1. Send an email from the email account you want to register with
> > to ckan-dev+subscribe at ckan.org or ckan-announce+subscribe at ckan.org
> > 2. Shortly afterwards you should receive a new email on the same
> > account with subject "Join request for CKAN DEV ...". **Make sure
> > to check the spam folder"**
> > 3. Reply to that email or click the "Join Group" button on the
> > email body.
> > 4. You should receive a second confirmation email with subject "You
> > have joined the group ckan-dev at ckan.org". From that moment on you
> > should receive any new messages to the list to your email account
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev
> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/ckan-dev
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