Re: <nettime> Direction of Travel

[Frank Rieger via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org>]

Many thanks to everyone making the continuation possible!

Frank



> On 13. Jun 2023, at 16:02, paul van der walt via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear nettime-l,
> 
> We just had a synchronous video meeting kindly facilitated by Christian Swertz.  I attempted to take some rough "minutes", if you like, for transparency purposes but also to keep us participants somewhat accountable.
> 
> Broadly, we did a round of introductions (present were Allan, Christian, David, Felix, Gregoire, Henk, John, Jordan, Menno, Paul, and Vesna - my apologies if i've left folks out), then tried to tackle roughly the following agenda:
> 
> 1. Technical challenges
> 2. Plans for subsequent hosting
> 3. Interim moderation team / volunteers
> 4. Next steps
> 
> We received some background information on the technical challenges a mailing list might face - i won't delve too deeply into the details.  The subject matter experts are on hand on the list.  Felix pointed out that nettime is two things: the email server / Mailman, as well as some static HTML and the public list archives.
> 
> We proposed 3 possible future hosting platforms for nettime-l:
> 
> * John Preston will reach out to riseup.net, to ask whether they  would be willing and/or able to host a list of our size,
> * Jordan Crandall knows the executive director of rhizome.org and  so will put out feelers in that direction,
> * Henk said that waag.org would be able to host nettime if we  wanted that.
> 
> Of course, this is just what we came up with and more options might exist!  None of this is final but we wanted to have concrete avenues to pursue, and will report back.
> 
> For the interim, we will be needing a moderation team.  Of the people present in today's meeting, Jordan, John, Menno, Christian, Paul (myself), Henk and potentially Gregoire were willing to take on that mantle.  We decided that for the minute, we'd conduct all our discussions around practicalities on-list, and if that became too noisy, we might consider creating a mods-list for discussion. We would want that list to be public (for transparency reasons) and if such a list were created, we'd notify this list.  But we don't expect a high volume of "meta" discussion for now.  Vesna also made a great suggestion around timeframe - instead of unrealistic commitments, the suggestion was to sign up for moderation/janitorial tasks for a 1-year period, after which we would have a check-in to see how folks are feeling.  Motivated / burned out / etc. and to have a moment to reflect.
> 
> Another important thing around the "interim moderation" group is that we are soliciting "fresh blood" to join - the intention was not to decide then and there how to move forward, but rather to build momentum.  So, please chime in.
> 
> Finally, Christian will be proposing another synchronous meeting a few weeks hence, to give more folks the opportunity of joining in, as well as hopefully having a discussion more focused on the types of things we might want to do to "breathe more life" into nettime-l, so to speak.  I'll refrain from listing examples, because we'd welcome them from you, our subscribers.  More to follow.
> 
> And after all that, please don't hesitate to let me know if i've forgotten or misrepresented anything.  A big thank you to the old- and new- nettimers that turned up to discuss, or just listen, for your involvement.
> 
> Kind regards,
> paul
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