Ubuntu entrepreneurs list-help

[Patrick]

Hi Tony

I have found this website in the past by myself!

I think it is a great idea and I hope I can support your work. I think 
there is a lot cross over here but the "entrepreneur" aspect of the list 
I am proposing might make for a clearer "branding" for this purpose. 
Having links to your site would definitely be helpful however and I 
think we should find away to integrate people's threads into an archive 
of shared experiences for your site as well.

I need to make another list on code-read.org for my instrument control 
application as well, so the mailing list manager thing is a hill I need 
to climb anyways.

Is what I am saying fair? Can we work together on this as two entities?

Thanks-Patrick






Tony Yarusso wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 8:52 PM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net 
> <mailto:alfred.s at nexicom.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Patrick:
>
>     I don't have experiences with Mailman.
>
>     It might be good to go into the open sources arena, so we get some
>     input
>     from other Linux and ? OS areas, on using OS or Linux for business.
>
>     Alfred!
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Patrick <optomatic at rogers.com <mailto:optomatic at rogers.com>>
>     Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
>     <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>>
>     To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
>     <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>>
>     Subject: Ubuntu entrepreneurs list-help
>     Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:38:42 -0500
>
>     Hi Everyone
>
>     I am trying to put the pieces together for our entrepreneurs list. It
>     looks like Mailman is a solid mailing list manager. Does anyone have
>     experience setting this up on shared hosting?
>
>     I was also thinking about the name. There really is no reason to use
>     Ubuntu and we might step on other peoples toes with it. How is :
>
>     Open source Entrepreneurs A.K.A open-entrepreneurs at code-read.org
>     <mailto:open-entrepreneurs at code-read.org>
>
>     or a shorter version
>
>     Open source Entrepreneurs A.K.A open-neurs at code-read.org
>     <mailto:open-neurs at code-read.org>
>
>
>     I was also thinking that there is no reason this has to be a Canadian
>     only list. Although there will be variations in the laws in different
>     countries a general framework will still apply and we all face the
>     same
>     sort of challenges.
>
>     Perhaps some of the Linux media would help to promote this too, I.E
>     Slashdot, Linux-action-show etc. If it does not cost too much I could
>     also put an ad on sourceforge.
>
>     I would love some feedback on this-Patrick
>
>
>
>
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>
> Hey guys, not sure if you're interested, but I thought I'd mention 
> this.  A little while back I was looking around online for a 
> particular sort of web site, and discovered that oddly enough it 
> didn't exist.  So, I thought it would be worth looking into making it 
> myself.  I have been extremely busy lately, so "just for fun" projects 
> like that have been progressing very slowly, but I do still have hopes 
> of pulling it together in the medium-term future, and it sounds like 
> there would be some overlap with what you are doing.  Here's what I 
> envision:
>
> The site will revolve around the theme of deploying open source and 
> open standards in all types of situations, including business, 
> personal, educational, and governmental.  The idea is that anyone who 
> uses Ubuntu on their workstations in a corporate setting, XMPP for 
> conversations in an educational environment, WordPress for their 
> personal blog, or OpenDocument for government records could create a 
> section specific to each particular technology they are using and post 
> a description of how they're using it, why it was chosen, any tips 
> they have for others wanting to deploy in a similar setting, etc., 
> with those also being linked back to a user/organization profile so 
> you can see what various folks are using.  There would be forums for 
> discussion within topics, and an overall site organization browseable 
> both my environment and by software/standard/technology.  The aim 
> would be threefold, 1) for people to tell what they have done 
> successfully, 2) for people to interact and discuss how to deploy 
> things, or how to use them more efficiently, and 3) for people 
> considering deploying open solutions, or proposing such a deployment 
> to their superiors, to go to learn about the pros and cons of 
> different things and evaluate what would be best suited for them.
>
> Since your group focuses on small businesses taking advantage of open 
> source software to fill their business needs, I thought I'd offer this 
> as something you may be interested in getting involved in, as I try to 
> find the time to actually bring the site into reality.  Additionally, 
> the hosting that the site is on supports Mailman, and I'm reasonably 
> confident that I could figure out how to set it up, and if all goes 
> well, there may be the possibility of integrating a mailing list with 
> forum functionality as well so the discussion could be accessed by 
> e-mail or web interface (I'm thinking big here - I know it's possible 
> but don't know how to do it, yet).
>
> The domain in question is deployopensource.com 
> <http://deployopensource.com>.  If you are interested in finding out 
> more about the future web site, having me host your mailing list 
> instead, or have any other questions, let me know.  Progress on the 
> site should pick up significantly in June, when some of my larger 
> current time committments end.
>
> -- 
> Tony Yarusso
> http://tonyyarusso.com/