[Winona] Proposal to Move Winona Forum

[Tim Erickson]

Earlier this week, Randy Schenkat sent out an invitation to a meeting  
on Thursday, to discuss the prospect of moving Winona Online  
Democracy, to join the other E-Democracy.Org forums on our  
Groupserver software.

We'll be meeting at the Accoustic Cafe at 4:30 PM this Thursday (Oct  
18th) to talk more about this AND the future of Winona Online  
Democracy. If anyone has any questions or comments about this  
proposed move, I hope that you'll either be able to attend this event  
- or post your comments/questions here, in advance of Thursday's  
meeting.

    Date:     Thursday October 18th
    Time:     4:30 PM
    Place:    Accoustic Cafe

As the person who is responsible for Issues Forum support, at E- 
Democracy.Org, the reality is that Winona has not gotten much of my/ 
our attention over the last two years, mostly because of how  
separated it has become from our other forums. We think that we'll be  
able to provide much more support and encouragement to your forum, if  
you move on over and join us on Groupserver!!!

   http://forums.e-democracy.org

Both St. Paul and Mpls moved from Mailman (the software that you are  
using) over a year ago - and both are doing VERY well.

Moving the forum, will simply mean that members of the Winona forum  
will each have to create a new account on our Groupserver site (all  
that requires is a first name, last name, and email address) and JOIN  
the NEW Winona Online Forum. We've been putting a lot of work into  
the new site and are continually making improvements, please take a  
look and let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Tim Erickson
E-Democracy.Org


 >e-democracy.org , our partner in supporting Online Democracy in
 >Winona, has  a new group server available which holds many
 >advantages.  Tim Erickson will be joining the WOD Steering Committee
 >at 4:30 pm this Thursday Oct 18th at the Accoustic Cafe to describe
 >its features and visit with us about the advantages of making the
 >switch.   Tim suggests you can get a look at its functioning by
 >visiting any of the three urls below.     Also, all subscribers are
 >invited to join in on this discussion either on line or by coming to
 >the meeting.   If you have a wireless laptop, it might be useful in
 >seeing some of the features Tim will be sharing on Thursday.
 >Hope to see your input on line or in person.  Thanks, Randy
 >
 >
 >
 >  Roseville:
 >     http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/roseville-issues/
 >  Minneapolis:
 >     http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/
 >  St. Paul
 >     http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/stpaul-issues/
 >