[NCUC-EC] FW: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Launch of NCUC Chat - A platform for NCUC collaboration

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi,

Thanks for the message
let's remember first that is an experiment to see reactions and learn from.
habits and behaviors are evolving in term of interaction and usage. it is
not about geeky or techy shiny tools  we want to try but about improving
ways of doing things and engaging our members, in particular newcomers.

regarding the administration, I don't think EC get involved in admin tasks
like membership list management or mailing list management, which are still
done manually btw. for this case, we are having the manual approval as
temporary workaround, we can open automatic registration without any
verification and do post-management in ad-hoc basis.

Best,

Rafik

2016-05-05 23:45 GMT+09:00 Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu>:

> *From:* Ncuc-discuss [mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org
> <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org>] *On Behalf Of *James Gannon
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 5, 2016 5:55 AM
> *To:* ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org
> *Subject:* Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Launch of NCUC Chat - A platform for NCUC
> collaboration
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> Hi All,
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> We have enabled manual approval of new accounts, please email myself rafik
> or brenden to get accounts approved.
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> MM: James, do you think this is a viable or scalable administrative
> process?
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> You want ALL of NCUC membership (300+) on  this tool and all additions
> (and presumably deletions) to be manually handled on special email
> requests?
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> I am sorry, that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. As Brenden can tell
> you, I am very conservative about these things - I understand that techies
> get all excited about the capabilities of new tools, but I always resist
> the tendency to jump headlong into them because techies also tend to
> overlook completely the administrative burdens associated with
> implementation and regular maintenance not to mention migration and
> isolation issues in the transition.
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> I am sending this message only to NCUC EC, and Brenden added. I don’t
> think the decision to make this transition was properly thought out and the
> EC needs to re-consider it.
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> --MM
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