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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Book Antiqua;font-size: 18px">Keybase works excellent even with large teams (e.g. ERGA initiative) and does not kill old messages like Slack, i.e. it is free.</span></div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 28 Jun 2021, 19:02 +0200, Ivan Gregoretti <ivangreg@gmail.com>, wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-color: grey; border-left-width: thin; border-left-style: solid; margin: 5px 5px;padding-left: 10px;">Migrating to Google groups sounds very appealing to this Biopython reader.<br />
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Thank you.<br />
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Ivan<br />
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On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 11:00 AM João Rodrigues<br />
<j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
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My "issue" with having announcements in a blog or twitter or so (only) is that you have to make an active effort to read them as a user. I see your point with feeds (Feedly user here too) but it's an extra layer (in my opinion), and the more layers, the less involvement.<br />
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An email is "passive": you subscribe and that's it, gets delivered to your inbox. It's also the lowest common denominator in terms of tech in the sense that everyone has/uses email.<br />
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Migrating to a Google group should be simple too, you can (could at least) subscribe automatically all the members of the current list so that there's no action necessary on their end.<br />
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A segunda, 28/06/2021, 10:38, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> escreveu:<br />
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My goal is both reduce OBF maintenance, and better connect with the<br />
Biopython community - it seems this mailing list is sub-optimal on<br />
both front.<br />
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As to consolidation/relocation, I was thinking blog (read only<br />
announcements), free-tier Slack (real-time interactions including<br />
user support), and Github (dev support and discussions). But maybe<br />
with the slow decline in news reader popularity (I personally have<br />
used Feedly ever since Google Reader was dropped), you're right and<br />
there is still a role for some kind of email based announcements list?<br />
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(Note that some of the smaller non-public OBF mailing lists have for<br />
some time forwarded to private Google Groups; your suggestion would<br />
not be such a big upheaval)<br />
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Peter<br />
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On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 3:27 PM João Rodrigues<br />
<j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
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I understand your points.<br />
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If the purpose is to reduce the load on OBF to maintain and host all these things, what about creating a single mailing list on google groups (free, archived, easy to use) and use that for announcements and an initial point of contact? You could then combine google group (announcements), free-tier Slack (real-time user support), and Github (dev support) and cover pretty much all corners with remote hosted tools that archive the most important conversations.<br />
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Never used Gitter or other chat platforms.<br /></blockquote>
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