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[Fabien B <fabien.8@xxxxxxx>]

> A few quick thoughts: Does ooc really need to host a mailing list on
> the ooc-lang domain? If the primary reason seems to be 'for
> appearances sake' then why not host git too? And run our own IRC
> server :) Or are there some important features missing from launchpad
> list?

cb rubin, you're right, we don't *need* it but I think I will be better 
to have it. Having said that, if the workload is too high, we shouldn't 
try to host ourselves the ML but having our own mailing lists, whith an 
hand on the sources and the ability to migrate, is a nice thing.

>     2. A "free" consideration : it should be a good thing to pull out
>     Twitter and migrate to Identi.ca, or, why not, to install our own
>     StatusNet service [http://status.net/]. We can keep the Twitter
>     account and automatically push the messages from Identi.ca I think.
>
>
> I fail to see the benefits, here. ooc_lang has ~310 followers on
> Twitter, that's quite a few, would it encounter the same popularity on
> Identi.ca? Is StatusNet easy to maintain? As cd rubin said, volunteers
> time is not constant. What if you die? Or worse, get married? I feel the
> same way about 'maintaining maintenance time-cost the lowest possible'.


Amos, as said before, if the workload is too high... but here I think 
not. Nevertheless, in my view, the better option should be to officially 
go at Identi.ca and let the Twitter account open for current followers 
and maybe global 'popularity'.

StatusNet, and so Identi.ca is able to pull and push automatically 
messages from and to Twitter. I don't use Twitter but Identi.ca seemed 
to have more features, as XMPP transport, post tagging and groups 
subscription.

Furthermore, in a 'free' consideration too, Identi.ca let users 
subscribe with an OpenID and works with standards as FOAF and the CC 
licenses.

Thus, we remain around free software and we don't lose neither current 
neither potential followers. Also, you can keep working with Twitter and 
let Identi to pull. After all, we might let Twitter on the website, on 
top of.

What's your opinion ?

>     3. What are your opinions about the creation of a XMPP room ?
>
>   I think I'm in agreement with Fred here. Generally, I haven't seen
> XMPP rooms being used for anything useful (but that's just my culture),
> and have only seen Freenode channels for serious development-related
> stuff. Although it would certainly be no problem to start an XMPP room
> later, when the community gets larger (as Fred says).

Ok, I understand and I mostly agree.


>     4. What do you think about writing the website in OOC  : a good
>     idea, to demonstrate a real world example; not a priority, practical
>     aspects matters more... ?
>
>
> Maybe writing one website in ooc would be a good thing. Writing ooc's
> website in ooc would be too much of a hassle I think. But maybe writing
> a "Try ooc" website in ooc would be a good idea? When we have something
> like a rock interpreter backend, or just tcc in a sandbox (so that
> people can't harm the server)

Yes, good idea. We may need a little server for that, until an eval() 
function is ready !