RE: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com>]

Well, if it's possible to keep running the list on the same server, I'd
vote for a solution that lets that happens, since it wouldn't require
all current subscribers to relocate and resubscribe.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric J. Ray [mailto:ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community




keilanhoo -at- yahoo -dot- com wrote:
> Do you have a deadline/time frame in mind for when you want to 
> finalize cutting ties to the forum?  And, assuming someone else does 
> arise to take over, have you worked out any procedures or requirements

> for doing a handoff?
> 

No and no. Given two equivalent proposals, one with an effective date of
September 1 and one with July 1, we'd be more interested in the former,
but there's not a deadline.

Similarly, there are no pre-determined procedures for a handoff. Really,
there's not a technical issue that we're trying to solve--given the
right context, there's no reason that TECHWR-L couldn't continue to live
on the same server, using the same software, in the same fashion, that
it does now, but under different management. There's no requirement that
it does, but it could. On the other hand, it could move elsewhere.

In other words, the technical aspects of keeping the server
up and running aren't overwhelming--TECHWR-L consists of
a few Linux boxes that basically just keep running, barring hardware
failures. It's the time and energy to update polls, solicit, edit and
publish new articles, and generally keep things moving forward. It's the
committment to not let the site, list, or community stagnate. It's the
committment to drive new content, new features, new resources, and to
meet the needs of the technical communication community of 2004...and
later. We used to have that, but we don't now. Therefore, it's time for
a change.

Eric
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