<nettime> Direction of Travel

[paul van der walt via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org>]

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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