Re: [orca-list] Let's move to orca freelists org

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Whatever they want whereever they want misses the point.  Better yet
people should feel free to discuss whatever they want whereever they're
able.  Given discourse already discovered limitations, liassons between
discourse and our orca list will be essential for accessibility to move
forward.



Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)

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On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, Luna Jernberg via orca-list wrote:

> Joining
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 2:13 PM Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> > Hey all.
> >
> > Samuel Thibault has created orca freelists org for us. Thank you, thank
> > you, thank you! From what he's told me, this should provide us with
> > more stability than tuxfamily and is not connected with any distro.
> >
> > Regarding Discourse versus mailing list: I think people should feel
> > free to discuss whatever they want wherever they want. But perhaps the
> > thing to do is discuss the accessibility of GNOME apps with the broader
> > GNOME community on Discourse. Those developers and community members
> > weren't participating on our list before, and likely won't start doing
> > so. So if we want them to see something, we need to bring it to
> > them. Likewise, if one of them needs to bring something to our
> > attention, they'll probably do so on GNOME infrastructure (Discourse,
> > Gitlab, etc.). So our keeping an eye out there also makes sense. But
> > all the end-user, Orca-specific discussion that (I suspect) the broader
> > GNOME community is not interested in -- especially if it's about MATE
> > or KDE -- can continue taking place on our mailing list.
> >
> > Make sense?
> >
> > If so, you should be able to subscribe via the form on
> > https://www.freelists.org/list/orca or by sending an email to
> > orca-request freelists org with 'subscribe' in the Subject. Once we
> > confirm this works as expected, I'll update the wiki and the Readme,
> > etc.
> >
> > Thanks again to Samuel for setting this up, to Didier for getting our
> > gnome list a temporary extension while we sort things out, to Jean-
> > Philippe for the tuxfamily alternative (sorry we didn't use it!), Nimer
> > for the google groups alternative (ditto), Peter for documenting how to
> > use Discourse, and everyone else for their input and patience while I
> > wasn't able to deal with this myself. (Hope I'm not forgetting anyone.
> > It was a huge thread.) Y'all rock!
> >
> > --joanie
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