[theforum] evolt.org admin question

Simon MacDonald simonmacdonald at uk2.net
Fri Nov 28 16:51:31 CST 2008


Elfur - Thanks, yes that explains it for me

-S

>------Original Message-----
>-From: theforum-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:theforum-
>-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Elfur Logadóttir
>-Sent: 28 November 2008 22:43
>-To: theforum at lists.evolt.org
>-Subject: Re: [theforum] evolt.org admin question
>-
>-.:| Ok Thanks - but still not wiser
>-
>-Simon,
>-
>-In our past we've attempted many different ways to govern evolt.org. We
>-started with just one mailing list - admin - which handled everything.
>-And
>-then admin became to noisy for us to effectively do all that needed to
>-be
>-done and we created more groups to do certain things (theforum, was the
>-larger forum, to discuss the grand scale of things - thesite was a
>-mailing
>-list, to develop the website further - thechat was the social gathering
>-place, to keep all other lists on point.
>-Thesite was later changed to desdev (design and development) one of
>-five
>-maintenance lists that had to do with different things ... again to
>-further
>-reduce the noise and limit the focus of each task ... this then
>-happened
>-during the same time as everything blew up, and thus this structure was
>-never really tested (probably mainly because it was an overkill :)) -
>-therefore ... later, it was desided to nix all "admin"lists but
>-finance,
>-sysadmin and content - all other schtuff is was migrated into theforum.
>-
>-Hth
>-/elfur
>-
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