[@OKau] Move from the mailing list to the new OK Forum?

[Paul Walsh]

Back to Stephen Gates’ original suggestion:

The one take home I have from this thread is that an OKau forum would be able to:

1. Replace this mailing list, with a category that matches the general agenda of this mailing list (specialist/core whatever)
2. Provide a platform for our categories (lists) that are less specialised, and/or topical in nature. This could provide more friendly entry points for discussions that are less technological/domain-driven, and more topical: eg: immigration, domestic violence, government spend, education - whatever need arises based on the people who come and get involved.

Remember: Discourse, the software, provides full “mailing list” functionality, as well as the “forum” web interface.

I’m not sure if the OK international discourse instance is the best place for all that - maybe yes, maybe no.

If not, I’d be willing to set this up as an au-specific forum, if there is general agreement on the utility. I’m not sure if OKAU has servers, or if this is something we can ask from OKI. I can also follow that up if there is interest. While I could set it up, there would have to be some other backup from the community to maintain the server, if the need arises.


> On 5 Jun 2015, at 10:31, Rosie Williams <budgetaus at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all
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> I agree that Paul didn't make the claim that I don't appreciate the humanity in developers, that was just my interpretation of his statement that my view of developers was 'flat'. This message has been trimmed so I can't easily check on his actual wording and that I have not again mis-stated his words but I don't want Paul or others to think I am happy to have them feel they have been mischaracterised by me here, at least not deliberately.
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> I agree that specifying/defining audiences matters which I feel was the point I was trying to make and with which it appeared to me Paul disagreed, quite vehemently. People here are welcome to disagree with me, I hope my opinions can stand up to scrutiny and if I am convinced otherwise then I can change my view. 
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> While I'm at it I should also mention that when I critique the focus on developers in the open data community I do not mean to disregard our contribution. I did not make that clear earlier and I am aware that repeatedly restating my critique might cause people to feel the work of developers in open knowledge is not something I appreciate. This is not my intention and I ought to make that clear in future.
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> cheers,
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> Rosie Williams BA (Sociology)
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> From: paulywalsh at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 09:47:44 +0300
> To: okfn-au at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [@OKau] Move from the mailing list to the new OK Forum?
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> Hi Rosie,
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> You are now saying things that I didn’t say, eg, that I claimed you don’t see humanity in developers, so, I’m not going to take the discussion further. The general gist of what I’m saying is: (1) there is no “general public”, and so any attempts at engagement need to be quite a lot more subtle in defining the audience to engage with, in my opinion, and (2) every field has specialists and non-specialists, technical or otherwise - nothing new to see here.
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> On 5 Jun 2015, at 09:27, Rosie Williams <budgetaus at hotmail.com <mailto:budgetaus at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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> consider
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