[blag-whereto] [Announcement]BLAG 300000 Released

Abdur-Rahman Morgan abdur-rahman at post-millenniumtechnologies.com
Tue Apr 1 19:50:20 UTC 2014


April Fools All[1]!

:)

In recognition for some of the very many definitions of blag and in 
celebrating April Fools, I hope some of you got a good laugh. In all 
seriousness, starting in May, we will begin development of BLAG 200000. 
For those of you who are excited, I look forward to working with you all 
as a team to see a successful release. For those of you who may ignore 
this message because you've been discouraged about participating from 
our inability not to come together as a community, during the next few 
months, I'll hope that you'll participate, even if are not interested in 
the OS Development.

However, it's been 12 years and for the last six, we've just let things 
fall by the wayside. The forums are not active subsequently, the mailing 
list is underutilized and our wiki...well you take a look at the 
statistics[1] and tell me how we have 59,673 active users.

Well, I have some suggestions. Let me know what you think.

Let's start with the wiki. I'd like to transition the wiki from 
MediaWiki to Dokuwiki. It's a lot simpler and a fresh start, with 
someone who can invest a few hours to learn and eventually help others 
learns to make it a community effort. I'd like to see the wiki blagified 
to a degree, that is not only full of technical knowledge, most of which 
is already in our forums, but content about free culture, free software 
and all things that revolve around issues that are relevant to the 
purpose of the distro.

Next, I'd like to see a shift in the way we communicate. The discussions 
on IRC are some of the best discussions I've had with individuals. 
However, off IRC, since there is little activity on the forums and  I'd 
like to see a StatusNet instance setup for our community to keep in 
contact when we are not necessarily on IRC. Not simply discussions about 
BLAG, but discussions about what is happening on society, news that 
impacts each of us and other dialog about life in general.

Lastly, in help define where we are at, I'd like to see groups for the 
prior blag-developers blag-users created on StatusNet with the creation 
of actual mailing list that could mirror the content between them.

For the forums, I'd like to keep them, but transition away from them to 
StatusNet for the future?

In terms of OS Development, that's another long e-mail, that I'll follow 
up with.

Regards,

Abdur-Rahman








[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
[2]http://blag.wiki.aktivix.org/Special:Statistics



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