Minutes/2024-05-03
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
- Administration
- comp.sys.wearables
, comp.protocols.dns.bind , rec.radio.broadcasting , comp.os.plan9
- No further updates. RL to ping the respective correpondents.
- Moderation status of comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce
- TM has written to Florian Rehnisch to confirm that he is willing to remain moderator. Waiting for response.
- comp.sys.wearables
- Infrastructure
- Mail server
- RL still to look into some NGP submission notifications still going to our Junk folder.
- RL still to work on getting the webmail and admin front-ends working again.
- Mail server
- Software
- PyModerator: RL has been continuing to work on this. The software now basically works, and RL has identified some (pre-existing) bugs and areas for improvement.
- TM has received information from his employer's research office regarding employing student assistants with OTF IFF funding. He will review this soon.
- TM has now received coarse-grained availability information from everyone. He will send around a poll for a meeting soon.
- Publicity
- The meeting discussed plans for a panel at Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory. Agreed that TM would draft abstracts for two presentations (one tentatively introducing Usenet and why it is important to preserve/study, and another focussing on the technical/scholarly/legal/ethical challenges in using Usenet data) and send them to RL for revision/discussion. TM received a positive response from Avery Dame-Griff as a third presenter for the panel.
