[GSBN] GSBN's future structure

[Rikki Nitzkin]

I too am in agreement that this format works well, and I don't think  
it's small size is a disadvantage. As well, we are all open to  
inviting anyone who has something to share and wants to.

On the other hand, maybe I am the only one, but I don't use facebook  
and don't want to either.

Its hard enough to keep up with emails!

Rikki
On 28/02/2014, at 18:59, Danny Buck wrote:

> I totally agree with Derek. Well said as usual.
>
> Danny Buck
>
> On 2/28/14 9:46 AM, Derek Stearns Roff wrote:
>> I've changed the subject line, to focus on the specific question of  
>> GSBNs future structure.  I'm finding it challenging to follow this  
>> topic mixed in with other questions.
>>
>> I favor continuing GSBN as it is.  I think it serves a valuable and  
>> unique niche. Our members have differing needs, and GSBN serves  
>> some of those needs well.  In my view, we have created an important  
>> community on GSBN, that I want to maintain.  The fact that the list  
>> is quiet for weeks at a time is a virtue.  It allows important  
>> mutual support and high-level discussion on topics when needed, and  
>> isn't a burden during the rest of the time.
>>
>> Facebook serves other needs and other forms of use.  The Strawbale  
>> list on Facebook has existed for I don't know how long- more than a  
>> year.  It has more than 1,100 members.  Some members of GSBN are on  
>> the Facebook SB list, and everyone could be, if they wanted to be.   
>> But closing GSBN would not enhance the Facebook group, it would  
>> just eliminate the unique community that we have here.  You can't  
>> have this kind of community and interaction on a list with  
>> Facebook's level of traffic, member quantity, and mix of topics and  
>> postings.  Facebook is great for reaching a lot of people in a  
>> fairly superficial way.  That is important, but it isn't the only  
>> thing that is important.  GSBN is important too.
>>
>> Derek
>>
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/27/14 8:10 PM, Frank Tettemer wrote:
>>>> Tony, that was a wake up for me.  I hadn't even considered Liz  
>>>> might not be on the list. And so I began to consider who else  
>>>> might not be on the list.
>>>>
>>>> In an effort to leave no stones unturned, I would like to  
>>>> nominate the following:
>>>>
>>>> Dawn Marie Smith
>>>> Anna Wolfson
>>>> Michael Henry
>>>> Emily Rydell Niehaus
>>>>
>>>> I'd also like to apologize to any of the people, nominated above,  
>>>> who are reading this right now,
>>>> because, they are already on this list!
>>>> I just didn't know.
>>>>
>>> Dawn and Emily are already here.
>>>
>>> Anna, Michael, and Liz Johndrow are not yet (or they're  
>>> unidentified non-contributors at the moment).
>>>
>>> I'll need their email addresses or better still they can sign up  
>>> by following the link at the bottom of http://sustainablesources.com/GSBN/ 
>>> , and then let me now and I can make them contributing members.
>>>
>>> Regarding the idea of combining lists:   I definitely support  
>>> putting the bioenergy and SBRUs lists together.  It seems they've  
>>> been redundant since shortly after the REPP list cratered for a  
>>> while, SBRUs was created, and then REPP was reconstituted.
>>>
>>> The original reason for GSBN's existence was that those lists were  
>>> bale-hammered on a regular basis by well meaning newbies.  Us old  
>>> codgers (experience-wise, not necessarily chronologically) got  
>>> tired of repeating the same answers again and again, and a bunch  
>>> of the really knowledgeable old codgers got too busy working on  
>>> codes and other big-picture stuff to wade into the fray often, if  
>>> at all. GSBN became the place for 'higher level' discussions  
>>> regarding the strawbale movement, techniques, etc.  And it has  
>>> proven to work very well for that over the many years (since 1998  
>>> at least).
>>>
>>> If y'all are of a mind to open GSBN to everyone (and I know some  
>>> of you have been for a fair while), or to combine it with some new  
>>> SB überlist I'm cool with that too.  Opening to all just involves  
>>> a couple clicks of my all-powerful mouse.  Combining lists can be  
>>> a little more difficult (archive transfers and all that) but is  
>>> not impossible.
>>>
>>> But I'd want to hear a decisive decision one way or the other from  
>>> the majority of you.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Derek Roff
>> derek at unm.edu
>>
>>
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