Alright, here is the final count after casting my own vote for TechnologyWise and Linux Australia: 1. TechnologyWise: 4 2. Linux Australia: 3 3. Don Gould: 2 4. NZOSS: 0 5. Outlook Group: 0 And we have a winner with TechnologyWise! Anyone who doesn't want to be migrated, you can discontinue your mailing list membership here: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/postorius/lists/wlug.list.waikato.ac.nz/ NB: it requires the email address that you signed up with. @TechnologyWise Please contact me off-list regarding migration at fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz. Just to recap: the mailman server here at uni will be decommissioned December 13th. Thanks everyone! Cheers, Peter On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 1:43 PM Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone
Here is a list of all the potential options for having the WLUG mailing list continue in some form after the University of Waikato will shut down their mailman instance next month:
1. TechnologyWise would support us and host it at Catalyst (Wellington) Type: unspecified (since general hosting, could be mailman?) Comment: TW ran the BOP LUG that way
2. Linux Australia (https://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo) Type: mailman (open-source) Comment: not yet contacted whether they'd be open to it
3. Don Gould Type: unspecified (has FLOSS platform, so could be mailman)
4. NZOSS Type: discourse (open-source, at community.iridescent.nz) Comment: unlikely to migrate archives
5. Outlook Groups option Type: MS Outlook (proprietary) Comment: just email distribution, probably no archives
In terms of WLUG list archives... I've experimented with hypermail (https://github.com/hypermail-project/hypermail) and was able to turn the 53MB mbox file containing all our posts from the last 25 years into 183MB of HTML. That way, we can at least ensure that the old content doesn't get lost completely. I also talked to Daniel Lawson, who's hosting the old WLUG website and wiki. Though he is not keen on managing mail (bit of a nightmare nowadays according to him), he'd be willing to host the HTML version of the archives.
Please reply to this post with your preferred option(s) by Saturday night (e.g., "1" or "1 3 4"). On Sunday, I will then create a final tally (hopefully).
Thanks again for your suggestions!
Cheers, Peter
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