[GSBN] GSBN's future structure

[Joyce Coppinger]

> I agree with Derek.
> 
> Joyce Coppinger
> 
> 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
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> 
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