[Overload-sig] Experimenting on real-world groups with potential solutions

[Brett Cannon]

The free-for-OSS details can be found at
http://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/
. If we want to start the experiment without a custom domain I think that's
fine since I assume we can add it later. Might as well go for the easiest
solution for now while we play with an installation before we worry about
whether we want their free offer, paid-by-PSF hosting, or self-run hosting.

On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 at 10:25 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Jun 23, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
> I'm sold. Let's start by moving this very sig to Discourse, or at least by
> setting up a parallel Discourse instance where we can discuss this and
> experiment.
>
>
> Ok. I guess I can take on doing that. Let me investigate the options for
> hosting. I know that discourse the company offers paid hosting of discourse
> the software and I think they give it free to OSS projects, even at their
> own domain, provided they make the URL something like ``
> discourse.python.org``. If that’s acceptable I can reach out to them and
> try to set that up. If we’d rather have a name that isn’t tied to a
> specific piece of software (like ``discuss.python.org``) or we’d rather
> not host this externally then i can see about setting that up on our own
> infrastructure.
>
> Either way, Discourse provides a way to suck up all of the data out of it
> into a backup and “take it with you” which you can import into a running
> instance elsewhere so the downside of using hosted is pretty low I think.
>
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>
> Donald Stufft
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