ZZ9

[watervole]

The ZZ9 livejournal has problems.

It's been set up as members only being allowed to post.  Which would be fine, except that the two people listed as able to give membership of the community are now no longer active.  One didn't reply to my request and the other wants nothing to do with it...

If there is any way this community can be set to open posting, it needs to be done.

I want to try and find volunteers to go early on the day of the British Museum slouch and get tickets for the Terracotta Warriors exhibition.  If we all arrive later in the day, the odds are that there won't be any left.  The LJ community seems an obvious place to do this, both to find how many people intend to go, and if anyone planning on going is willing to get tickets for the others.  (I'm told that one person can get up to four tickets)

Comments

[del-c.livejournal.com]

I think the one who wants nothing to do with it owes it to everyone else to go in (if only once) to "Manage Account"..."Members" and tick at least one person to be a new Maintainer. That third maintainer should (if I understand the system right) now be able to remove the first two, restoring the community to the status of having an active maintainer able to give memberships. That maintainer can now make the community open, but given that you now have an active maintainer, maybe you don't need to after all.

[aeglefinus.livejournal.com]

I have posting rights to the ZZ9 LJ, but not maintenance rights. So if you send me the text I can post it for you.

Also, there is always the ZZ9 email list, aka ‘the bounce’, which is a Yahoo group that would be another way of contacting members that may be going to the British Museum slouch.

Concerning the LJ, there may be the possibility that either Flick or Dougs has some sort of "recovery" rights as it was one of them that set the ZZ9 LJ up in the first place.

Otherwise, I would suggest that if someone didn't want anything to do with it then the easiest thing for them to do is assign maintenance rights to someone else then they would not be asked to do things about it anymore. I would be happy to be a temporary maintainer to hand it over to the new committee.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I think having at least two maintainers is a good plan, to reduce the chances of this sort of thing happening. It's bad luck if both pushed off without bothering to hand over their responsibilities at the same time.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

"Who's planning on going on the British Museum slouch on 12 January? I'd like to go, but I think we'll need to get tickets in the early morning if we're to have any chance of getting in. (they release some tickets every morning at 9 and one person can get up to four tickets)

If we can work out who wants to go, could we find a volunteer/s to go in early and get tickets for the group for the Terracotta Warriors?"

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't.

The community is open to members, but they're able to post on an invite-only system, since the community is not a community, it's a ZZ9 news feed. We use it, essentially, as a convenient way of having an RSS feed, and so open access would kill it.

Secondly, Abigail has now put me in charge, so I can actually take care of issues, as more committee members are being added as I speak, so that's not a problem at the moment either.

The bounce is a good place to advertise for an extension to the slouch (sure as hell worked for Robert Newman - his St Pancras slouch was exclusively organised through the bounce, his own LJ and the pub, and had the best attendance of any slouch in the last committee's term), and I will ask the committee if I can post a little message on zz9 about this, but bear in mind that our LJ community is not intended to be an open forum, it's intended to be a place for people to post related news items.


(These are not the views of the committee, they are simply the facts as I currently understand them. I will bring the matter up at the next committee meeting, and if the majority of people disagree with my view, it may well be more open in the future.)

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Abigail transferred it to me earlier - we had had trouble getting hold of either Pepper or Abs, but since she contacted me it's all gone smoothly. :)

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Abigail transferred it to me earlier - we had had trouble getting hold of either Pepper or Abs, but since she contacted me it's all gone smoothly. :) We now have me on the maintainer list, another committee member has a pending invitation and I plan to add more as an on-request service (I don't want to force moderatorness on committee members who don't want it!).

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

The matter of openness will be brought up by me at the next meeting, but it is now back under the committee's control, as it should be. :)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

That sounds good.