From rick at linuxmafia.com  Tue Feb  3 15:42:12 2015
From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen)
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:42:12 -0800
Subject: [Baylisa] Glad BayLISA retains some of its own operations
Message-ID: <20150203234212.GV14659@linuxmafia.com>

I notice BayLISA's trend of outsourcing to Meetup.com, and requiring
Meetup.com membership for participation in most of what BayLISA does,
continues.  (I politely disagreed with the rest of the Board of
Directors on this policy, and that was the reason I declined to run for
another term.)

Specifically:


http://www.baylisa.org/ is now a 302 temporary redirect to
http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/ .  Looks like that redirect was
implemented some time in the 3rd quarter of 2014.

The Meetup.com page includes 'We use Meetup to coordinate meeting
attendance, announcements, and reminders.  We have our official
organizational presence on the web, including links to membership,
sponsorship, and mailing lists, at www.baylisa.org [link].'

In the current pages, there is actually no information whatsoever about 
the mailing lists, and no path to those mailing lists or the BayLISA Web
site (if that Web site still exists).

Direct Mailman links still work.  For convenience, they are:

http://www.baylisa.org/mailman/listinfo/baylisa
http://www.baylisa.org/mailman/listinfo/baylisa-announce
http://www.baylisa.org/mailman/listinfo/baylisa-jobs
http://www.baylisa.org/mailman/listinfo/blw  (membership limited)
http://www.baylisa.org/mailman/listinfo/directors (membership limited)
http://www.baylisa.org/mailman/listinfo/members (membership limited)

OTOH, the Meetup page _does_ advertise under 'Discussions' a message
board and a mailing list, both of which appear to be accessible using
Meetup.com membership only.


I'm curious about whether the current Board intends to reinstitute
BayLISA's own Web site at some point.  

(However, I am not at this point a BayLISA member, only a member of the
seemingly vestigial and unadvertised Mailman mailing lists.)