[kwlug-disc] Would we want to aim for something like a Discourse.org site for KWLUG?

[Chamunks]

What?  Why would you think that Discourse is anything but open source?
https://github.com/discourse/discourse do your research.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:46 PM Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <
aklists at mixdown.ca> wrote:

> On Nov 27, 2018, at 5:35 PM, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was thinking that it would be nice to potentially see if we would have
> interest in having a https://www.discourse.org site dedicated to KWLUG
> since there are a few people raising privacy concerns with publishing their
> email addresses.  It would also help boil topics down to question and best
> response for the people digging into our topics in the future.  The other
> thing is you can respond to topics using email so people who don't really
> want to interface with the website don't have to and to top the features
> off it also includes a digest function wherein people who want a digest
> rather than a play by play can opt for that.
>
> Of course it's not ideal for the anti-java-scripters these days but I
> think that it's getting to a point with the web where we shouldn't let JS
> be the showstopper it's the 3rd party JS and other embedded trackers that
> are a problem.
>
>
> Proprietary, closed quasi-forum way of communicating because it’s not easy
> enough to obfuscate an email address?
>
> No thanks.
>
> -A. (understanding he’s a little fish here, but discourse seems a solution
> looking for a problem, and a wrong solution given the OSS-nature of this
> particular community)
>
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