[pianotech] The fate of Pianotech

[Mike Spalding]

Hi Ron,

Is the ECC report available online someplace for PTG members to read?

thanks

Mike

On 3/2/2013 10:07 PM, Ron Berry wrote:
> to the online PTG people
>
> I have been very tied up the past couple of week with my mother in the 
> hospital and moving her
>
> to a nursing home.
>
> I have to say that I was as surprised as the rest of you about the 
> notice in the PTG newsletter.
>
> The text in it made it look like I and the ECC were proposing that 
> Pianotech be closed and that everyone move over to the Google+ 
> community. Once again, I find the total lack of communication from the 
> Board to be astounding. My report suggested leaving the email 
> Pianotech running and starting an experiment with Google+. Next thing 
> I know it is being announced as the new thing and that people should 
> contact me for instructions. The G+ community has better options than 
> the Google group and it less likely to get spam since the membership 
> has to be approved and can be blocked. I called the G+ community 
> Pianotech just to get that name in case we liked G+.
>
> If I had a clue that the Board was going to promote this as the 
> replacement for Pianotech listserve I would have prepared some 
> instructions for using Google+. This change could not have occurred at 
> a worse time for me. I also suggested that the ECC committee be 
> eliminated since all its past functions are now taken over by staff. I 
> don't have admin rights to any of the web sites any more.
>
> I have pretty well lost my interest in dealing with PTG, but still 
> love the community created by all our online communities. The 
> listserve will probably be closed, even though there are some 
> functions it provides which will be hard to duplicate. I am no fan of 
> my.ptg.org <http://my.ptg.org> and almost never use it. When I do, it 
> is through email. It could be OK for some committee work. I do think 
> G+ works better than my.ptg.org <http://my.ptg.org>, and I imagine G+ 
> will grow over time at a much faster rate. G+ integrates with Gmail 
> very well, and that is the way I follow what is going on there. Also 
> the G+ iPhone app is excellent and easy to use. It is unknown how long 
> G+ will archive items, and we won't have much control over that. I 
> think it is reasonable to transfer the archives over to my.ptg.org 
> <http://my.ptg.org> to integrate them with that community just to save 
> them. I told the Board when they first were looking at my.ptg.org 
> <http://my.ptg.org> that the most important thing was to maintain the 
> Pianotech archives. Here we are, years past that, and they are still 
> in question.
>
> I"m still dealing with selling my mom's house and the stuff in it, so 
> I don't have much computer time. I have faith in the community that 
> created Pianotech and know that it will survive. It would be much 
> better if it could all come together in one place rather than four. I 
> think Google groups or G+ make sense as the place to have it. The 
> google group is more like the current listserve and the G+ group 
> offers some new features including Hangouts which are like Skype 
> conference calls. I leave it to the groups to decide.
>
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