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Re: Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration

On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 01:16:20PM -0400, J C Nash wrote:

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> 
> Ms. Robinson has indicated that NCF has some interest in the following:
> 
> - engaging with Linux-Ottawa participants in discussions to help NCF
>   select email software as Zimbra is going to become proprietary. NCF would
>   prefer open source, but needs a solution well-suited to very non-tech
>   users.

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I was a volunteer at Vancouver Community Network a long time ago. One of the projets I worked on was implementing Sympa to replace I don't remember what asxxx the mailing list software. It was chosen because of it's internationalisation and because of it's ease of use. VCN served individuals and non-profits for the very large part having zero technical inclination and from a large number of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Neither listmaster nor subscriber need know any command line kungfu. Everything about managing lists and subscriptions can be done through a web interface.

I wasn't an sysadmin of sympa, but a listmaster with All The Powers, so I could learn the web interface to help VCN clients with the new software (both admins and subscribers) and to help them migrate their archives. So, I have no experience with the sysadmin side of sympa or any other list manager to be able to offer useful comparisons of it's ease to maintain. I put it forward, nevertheless, as a system to consider for NCF, as I believe the ease of use requirement is checked off.

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