Re: [amsat-bb] Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message
The benefit to Slack is having channels for each topic. In this case, discussion about Board Membership can be in it's own channel. People who are not interested are not required to read.
That is the basic problem with American politics today. Each of us can choose our own news sources so that we hear only the news that we want to hear. When the whole country tuned in to Uncle Walt (that's Walter Cronkite for you younger folk) every night at 6:30, we still had disagreements but at least we started out with the same facts.
I'm sorry if you find these political matters distracting, but as I said before, these satellites are not going to build themselves. They take extreme effort and dedication from a lot of passionate people, and any time you have more than a few of these type-A personalities assembled together, there will be disagreements.
Your support of AMSAT through your dues is important, but paying dues once a year is not enough. You have to be an involved citizen of YOUR organization, you have to keep up with issues, even political issues, and you have to cast your vote wisely. And if you care enough to read Amsat-bb every day but you are not an AMSAT member, why the heck not? We need your money, but more importantly, we need your active participation.
73, Dan Schultz N8FGV
I agree 100% with the Slack solution.
We use it for VHF Scatter and it is far superior to any other solution. Unfortunately, you can't judge it until you have tried it. You can't use Email for real time coordination.
There already is a Slack Satellite channel setup on the VHF-Chat Channel and it is active.
Mike va3mw
While I'm not a big slack fan, it's just yet another system you need to monitor although works well perhaps when discussing satellite launches, roves in real time, bit like the days of IRC.
Slack do offer non profits deals which I'm guessing AMSAT could look into https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/204368833-Slack-for-Charities
Peter, 2M0SQL
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, 23:36 Michael Walker via AMSAT-BB, amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
I agree 100% with the Slack solution.
We use it for VHF Scatter and it is far superior to any other solution. Unfortunately, you can't judge it until you have tried it. You can't use Email for real time coordination.
There already is a Slack Satellite channel setup on the VHF-Chat Channel and it is active.
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For those that would like to develop proposals for alternatives to amsat-bb, note that there are presently 2550 subscribers. Turning off the mailing lists does not avoid any marginal costs - running GNU Mailman consumes only a tiny fraction of a single server's resources.
de KM1P Joe
I would not be a fan if the email list was removed in lieu of chat. They coexist well in many venues. Email is good for some things, chat is good for other things.
I was going to suggest Discord too, but A.) it's already been suggested B.) it's already been found at fault for something C.) I see that someone else already started a Discord AMSAT server ( https://signal-lounge.com/2020/05/23/new-discord-server-for-amateur-satellit...) (although the link is invalid).
Also, this conversation sounds eerily familiar...oh yea: https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-March/067425.html
73, Sterling N0SSC
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:00 PM Joseph B. Fitzgerald via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
For those that would like to develop proposals for alternatives to amsat-bb, note that there are presently 2550 subscribers. Turning off the mailing lists does not avoid any marginal costs - running GNU Mailman consumes only a tiny fraction of a single server's resources.
de KM1P Joe _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
On 7/14/2020 5:35 PM, Michael Walker via AMSAT-BB wrote:
There already is a Slack Satellite channel setup on the VHF-Chat
Channel and it is active.
There already is a satellite channel on the DMR Brandmeister 98006 talkgroup and it is active. How many more splinters are we in favor of?
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