<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> The web forum and the mailing list would need to be interconnected like</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> it is possible with the Mailman3 software that Lukas and Nikolaus have</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> mentioned.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> Voice conversation is a great opportunit even if we do not push the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> hard fact topics further. We could restrict the topics that can be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> discussed on the phone or even better: post the minutes (protocol) to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> the list.</span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This would be ideal but I don't know how easy it would be to configure such a service. Parsing and prettying up the text from our emails seems tricky enough, I can hardly imagine how hard it would be to do for voice data. That said, I'm not a programmer. Mumble and TeamSpeak both have a text chat feature, probably using IRC protocol, which can be easily logged and saved. Adding voice conversation logs to the mailing list could get very messy so perhaps recordings or transcriptions could be posted to a cumulative community history section of the website. This probably isn't worth the time and effort it would entail but it could be an interesting social statement as to the open nature of our community (see below for a detailed example). I do think it's a cool idea but I still think shipping phones and upgrading phone designs is the most important aspect of our project by far. If web programmers have free time and want to help, what about that interactive map of service provider compatibility I mentioned a while back? I think that would be a powerful way to expand our community and increase donation/pre-order revenue. I think for now it would be best to just set up a basic web forum and Murmur (Mumble) server and designate the mailing list as the "official" discussion medium. It would probably be a good idea to slowly move the official medium towards the forum since it will be much easier to administrate but there is no need to rush that transition.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Example: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What I had in mind as a transparency statement is a tab on the main site labelled "community history", which leads to a page containing aggregate logs from all communication mediums. This data would be pulled from a database and could be stratified or searched by anyone who logs in with a free user account, the same account used on our forums, to make donations, and to order phones. This account could also be associated with the VoIP server. Anonymous access to the database, forum, and VoIP server could be allowed to some extent but certain channels and behaviours would require login.</span></div>
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