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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 3/7/19 5:12 PM, Peter Schober wrote:
> * David Verdin <address@concealed> [2019-03-07 16:13]:
>> I have no idea how one does create such organization.
>>
>> If anyone has any experience creating and/or running such a thing, I'm too
>> interested in reading it.
> 
> Before doing anything here please talk (or have someone from RENATER
> talk) to Nicole from GEANT about the "Greenhouse" activity (full name
> and address given on the website below):
> https://www.geant.org/People/Community_Programme/Special_Interest_Groups/Pages/SIG-Greenhouse.aspx
>  
> See also https://wiki.geant.org/display/GREEN/SIG+Greenhouse
> (though much there seems to be out of date)
> 
> Sympa is already recognised as a project that's important to the
> communities it originated in (Research and Education Networks)
> https://wiki.geant.org/display/GREEN/Open+Source+Software+in+NRENs
> and many other projects have the same background/DNA and hence the
> same issues and discussions.
> 
> I note that the question *why* Sympa needed its own servers wasn't
> really answered so far (or why the Github wiki isn't sufficient).
> (Now I can certainly imagine reasons why one would not want to depend
> on Internet Monopolists' services but I don't assume these are
> universally shared.)

We would certainly like to host our own mailinglists instead of with Renater, 
where
we don't have administrative access. Also the login procedure is far away 
from user
friendly.

Regards
         Racke


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