<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info" target="_blank">ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Feb 19 12:44, William Drake (<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>) wrote:<br>
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> On Feb 19, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:ncuc@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO">ncuc@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> > Before it'll actually be useful though we'll need to subscribe<br>
> > people. I believe the idea was to subscribe all members<br>
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> all NCUC members.<br>
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</div>Yes.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> So need to read the member list against that of NCSG-discuss and<br>
> drop out people who are NPOC only. Who I expect will be delighted,<br>
> since they've complained strenuously in the past about receiving<br>
> NCUC-related mail on the SG list. Sorry, I suppose that's a task.<br>
> Maybe you could conspire with Ed to go through the names?<br>
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</div>I believe Ed's already been building NCUC member list<br>
based on stuff he got from Robin.<br>
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I don't have access to ncsg-discuss subscriber list though,<br>
and I don't think Ed has it either.<br>
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Brenden,<br>
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Could you help here?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sure, I'll send the NCSG-Discuss subscriber list to you privately. FYI, Wilson also currently has access to the NCSG-Discuss subscriber list, but I imagine once NCUC-Discuss is setup he'll want to be be removed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And I agree w/Bill, comparing the NCSG-Discuss subscriber list with any NCUC membership roster data would be smart. </div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore to that point, this might be a good time to start using some customer relationship management software to help keep track of members in a more integrated fashion. E.g., David had recommended CiviCRM, which has plugins to content management platforms we've talked about (wordpress, drupal).</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- B</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm not sure we'll need it (if Robin's info is complete<br>
enough), but it wouldn't hurt in any case.<br>
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> > Another thing to do before announcing the list is to set up<br>
> > archiving. I understood the plan is to copy old archives over and<br>
> > keep on adding to them, in effect forking ncsg-discuss.<br>
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</div><div class="im">> Not being sysadmin literate I don't know what forking means.<br>
> But certainly one would think the ideal outcome is that there's an<br>
> integrated NCUC archive under our control and that a copy of at<br>
> least that portion of the archive that is properly NCSG-discuss<br>
> should remain intact where it is at Syracuse.<br>
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</div>I don't have any plans or indeed means to remove anything<br>
from the Syracuse server, so the part of archive up to<br>
the split would be in both places. (Which is basically<br>
what I meant by forking: two lists with common history<br>
but different future. Like a fork in a road.)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I can draft a brief welcome message and float it here in case ET<br>
> folks think there's something I should have added.<br>
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</div>It wouldn't hurt. Keep it really short though. As in 2-3 lines.<br>
Longer explanations can be sent to the list itself.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Shall we assume with lag time for doing all the above we're shooting<br>
> for a launch like Friday? So we'd have three days to do your voodoo<br>
> with the archives, the membership comparison and sign up, and welcome<br>
> note..?<br>
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</div>Sounds like a plan to me.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> > An announcement on ncsg-discuss is also in order;<br>
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</div><div class="im">> I've already mentioned that this would be happening and had back and<br>
> forth with Alain about it, so I might as well do the follow up when<br>
> the trigger's pulled.<br>
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</div>Good.<br>
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Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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