Posted by strk on June 20, 2010 at 10:57am
Hi all,
Since I started looking at GEO for drupal I felt the need (and lack therof) of a proper place for discussing inter-module issues related to location and mapping.
This forum seems to be the closer one, but I personally find it somewhat uncomfortable as a discussion tool: you need to fire up a web browser to partecipate, doesn't easily allow direct contacts (hidden email addresses), doesn't give you all those nice settings a tipical mailman-based mailing list gives you.
So, who else is interested in a mailing list ?
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Interest from osgeo.org about drupal-geo ml
FYI: interest from the open geospatial community is expressed here:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2010-June/007383.html
At least a few developers are
At least a few developers are on #drupal-geo relatively often.
IRC
Yeah, that's good, but still real-time communication has its limits.
I'd see the mailing list as a non-real-time counterpart of the IRC channel.
You can see the interest from osgeo people, can tell you they span the whole longitude arc :)
Good idea
I'm really interested in this topic too,
available on all channels, mail, web, irc, pigeons..;)
Mailing list created
A list was created, curtesy of the Gpen Geospatial Foundation hosting it:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/drupal-geo
Looking forward to see you on board!
administering list
Thanks for setting that up @strk - I've joined.
My one request is that you add several co-admins of the list. In my experience of open source it's always good to have a few people with access in case someone is on vacation, has a disagreement, or disappears from the community.
As one of the admins of the Drupal Camp NYC organizers Mailman list, it's good to be able to share the burden of dealing with messages that go over the maximum filesize, or when people try to send from a different email address than they signed up with.
I'm happy to be an admin on this list.
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Turning down this mailing list?
Anyone object to turning down this mailing list? It was never used for discussion in a meaningful way, and now five years later just gets the occasional spam.
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I'm moving forward with
I'm moving forward with archiving the old osgeo drupal-geo email list, as proposed last year both here and on that mailing list.
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