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Grex > Coop > #295: New Conference Proposals | |
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jgelinas
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New Conference Proposals
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Nov 26 20:05 UTC 2010 |
This is where you should enter proposals for new conferences.
The normal procedure is this: People kick around your suggestion for a
while - say, a week or two. If the cfadms see that there's a lot of
interest, they'll normally email you to discuss a few details. If they
don't, you can email cfadm to say *you're* still interested, and the
conference will be set up.
Obviously, there are no guarantees that anyone will ever join or read
your conference. If this matters to you, you may want to gauge others'
interest before starting. (We've had a very few people grouse along
the lines of "What's wrong with this system, anyway? I set up this
neat conference, but it's been completely dead!". Other
conferences have just quietly expired, to nobody's apparent dismay.)
Ideally, you should propose a name for the conference, give some idea
what it's intended to discuss or accomplish, and propose a fairwitness
or fairwitnesses - preferably with the agreement of those you propose.
-albaugh, Coop9, Item 8.
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cross
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response 1 of 13:
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Nov 26 20:20 UTC 2010 |
This seems overly cumbersome in this day and age. We have so little usage
on Grex, that kicking around ideas for a few weeks isn't likely to generate
much, if any, discussion. To the extent that it did, I'd imagine that much
of it, while probably well-intentioned, would ultimately be counter-productive
in the sense it would likely take the form of asking the requestors to justify
their requests, which, I think, is a waste of time. At this point, if anyone
wants to use Grex, let's just let them use it how they like, without a lot
of vetting.
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rcurl
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response 2 of 13:
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Nov 26 20:49 UTC 2010 |
Very few people use any conference except agora. Is there a counter for the
use of all the present conferences?
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cross
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response 3 of 13:
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Nov 26 20:51 UTC 2010 |
I reallydoubt it.
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jgelinas
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response 4 of 13:
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Nov 26 20:53 UTC 2010 |
Dan, all I'm doing here is giving folks a place to request conferences.
What happens next, we'll determine when someone asks for one. :)
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cross
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response 5 of 13:
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Nov 26 21:06 UTC 2010 |
That's fine, Joe. But grex does tend to get wrapped around the axle when it
comes to following procedure. I think that's going to hurt us going forward;
people need to get used to being more agile and accepting of things that
aren't the way that things have always been.
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kentn
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response 6 of 13:
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Nov 26 21:24 UTC 2010 |
Given the low usage of conferences, we probably should create new ones
rather quickly if there is a little interest and someone willing to run
it. The amount of disk space is rather trivial nowadays, so no big
issue there. And seeing some new life in the conferences would be good.
If we create a new conference, be sure to announce it in agora so others
can see and maybe try it out.
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