RE: [Gamedevlists-brew] Re: Gauging the vibe

[Matt S. <ma...@en...>]

Guido--

If you need a place to host the list, I am happy to host it on one of my
collocated servers. 

I already have list management software setup on one of them
(http://list.entelepon.com) for a private "BREW technical share" group that
I setup a while back with another three companies (and then no one used)--
this is the same software that source forge uses, but it is configured to
only allow members access to the archives.

It depends on how feature rich you want to make this, but it's also possible
to setup a private Wiki. I have this setup for my company and am very happy
with it as a place for everyone to keep notes and upload files. It might be
cool if the list has something like this so that people can share files and
more permanent information that may not need discussion in the main thread,
or one could have the wiki send an email to the list every 24 or 72 hours
with a summary of recent changes to it, so that folks know if someone
uploaded a file or edited a page on the wiki.

The only issue is of course that this is hosted on Entelepon servers, and so
people may associate ownership with me or Entelepon. I don't want any kind
of ownership of this past setting up the software, I just don't have time,
and maybe other folks would be reluctant to participate in a list with the
URL branded by another company? We could do name based hosting (i.e.:
mobiledevelopersthatrock.com or something), or host a similar software setup
at a web hosting company that gives us control of the SMTP daemon (and cron)
for the list software and PHP for the wiki, though it would be best to have
an automatic backup script to someone's server, since most of the budget
hosting folks don't keep backups.

Matt. 

-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
[mailto:gam...@li...] On Behalf Of Bill
Kendrick
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 10:29 AM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [Gamedevlists-brew] Re: Gauging the vibe



Guido Henkel wrote:
> As for privacy I am currently looking into additional software 
> solutions that may allow me to take the list entirely private so that 
> the posts and archives cannot be viewed by non-subscribers. Evidently 
> this will mean that we may have to move the list again in the next 
> days or so since Sourceforge doesn't offer that, but I hope that's all 
> right, especially since I will automatically re-subscribe everyone if 
> that's going to be the case.

... And that makes total sense for a SourceForge list. ;)

-bill!



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