Re: <nettime> process reporting?

[Felix Stalder via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org>]

hi everyone,

On 26.05.23 16:53, John Hopkins via Nettime-tmp wrote:
> Will we hear anything more about the processes that are perhaps going
> on in the background? This may be a task for the new moderators, to
> let subscribers know what's going on ...

there isn't really a process at this point. So let's try to establish one.

* We had to move nettime away from kein.org, after being generously 
supported by kein.org and Florian Schneider in particular for an 
extremely long time, because Google blocked kein in nasty ways and we 
couldn't fix it easily. Email is a pain these days and Google regards 
spoofing headers (which is, technically, what mailman does) as spam by 
default. If you happen to one of the blocked accounts, you can read here 
what you were missing:

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2305/threads.html


* tl'dr version: We (Ted Byfield and myself) announced that after 15 
years, we were longer willing to maintain the list and would either hand 
it over to people who can do the technical task of hosting and social 
task of janitoring (nettime hasn't been moderated for subscribers for 
many years, but still needs care), or close down the list.

* There seems to be a consensus that the list still holds value (which I 
share) so closing it seems not the best option.

* A few people came forward to say that, in very general terms, they (or 
others!) would be contribute, but that hasn't coalesced into anything 
concrete.

* As far as I can tell, the most concrete offer came from The Waag for 
hosting the list and the web-archive. But maybe Henk can say something 
about this?

* Thanks to the support of Luka Frelih, we are now hosted by Ljudmila 
which couldn't be better.

* But as the name of the list indicates, this is only a temporary 
solution. While Luka hasn't imposed a deadline, I will: end of June.

* So, we have about one month to find a new technical infrastructure for 
the list (2000 subscribers as of now) and the webarchive (mid 1990s 
MHonArc), and a new team of janitors. Both aspects, the technical and 
the social, are not very difficult or onerous, but they require 
continuous attention and long-term care. I'm happy to elaborate what 
that meant so far, if somebody cares.

So, let's get this done and let's do it on the list.



all the best. Felix





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