[pianotech] Google groups (Horace)

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Will, Joseph,

I certainly agree with you that something reasonably well-planned is 
better than simply throwing something together without thought.  That 
said, the beauty of something like mailman is that it's so incredibly 
simple to set up and run...so, _if_ that's what people want to do, then 
planning might be as simple as a few interested parties pooling bits and 
pieces of their time to make it happen.

My purpose is to try to raise awareness that there are other (long term) 
possibilities than the ones that have been suggested so far.  Mailman works.

Having spent perhaps too much time working in "back-end" IT services, I 
admit to being hypersensitive to the problems that remote users of any 
kind can face when new technologies are introduced.  While it's very 
much true that many of us enjoy very fast (even "LAN"-speed) connections 
and equipment, it's also very much true that many people do not.  
Without getting too technical, the bottom line is that it's all to easy 
to create "digital divides" without at all meaning to simply through 
introducing technologies into an environment that is not prepared (for 
whatever reasons) to work with them.

In any event, it's the inclusive, wide-open nature of pianotech that has 
made it the invaluable resource that it has been (and remains) for the 
entire piano industry.  If people opt out of such communities because of 
some kind of technical limitation or lack of time or personal preference 
due to complexity of a new system, then everyone loses; and that's 
catastrophic to the future of the industry and the profession.

Kind regards.

Horace



On 2/26/2013 12:17 PM, Encore Pianos wrote:
> Certainly that is a reasonable thing to entertain.  I would say focus on
> transitioning to Googletech in the near term (or long term, if that is how
> it works out) and explore the practicalities and costs  for a New Pianotech
> separate from PTG.  This way it could be planned carefully and in an
> unhurried way, if that is what people want.
>
> Will
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
> Of Joseph Giandalone
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 3:12 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Google groups (Horace)
>
>
> Yes,
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> But don't you feel that the Google group could serve as a transition phase?
> It would take the heat off so that a more enduring solution could be put
> together carefully and calmly. No??
>
> Joseph
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> On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Encore Pianos wrote:
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>> With respect for everyone's good intentions here, I think a fee service
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> (which would be necessary to implement this) would be a real headache to
> administer outside the umbrella of some parent group (as PTG has done with
> Pianotech).  We have a month to pull something together to create such a
> thing before this easy ability to communicate disappears with Pianotech.
> Practically speaking, going with one of the Google groups would likely be
> easier.
>    
>> Will Truitt
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