Re: (cba:news) new cba discord server and communications roadmap information (Jonathan Kemp) [2025-03-18T17:05:47Z]

Hi CBAers,

For those of you who are not members of the chat list, you may find this 
note about our new CBA Discord server and communications roadmap 
information of interest.

Cheers,

Jonathan
CBA Wellesley


On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Jonathan Kemp wrote:

> Hi CBAers,
> 
> We would like to introduce our new CBA Discord server!  Matt and I have 
> worked to develop a new platform to further promote communication, 
> interaction, and community.
> 
> If you are interested in joining -- or simply finding our more -- please 
> have a visit here to learn more and to request a Discord invite.
> 
>   https://cbastro.org/communications/discord-server/
> 
> If you are unfamiliar with Discord, it is an online communications 
> platform for communities (think an informal version of Slack or Teams).  
> Discord is available for multiple operating systems and devices, and 
> also via web browser.
> 
> Discord does not replace our e-mail communications.  However, we would 
> also like to provide a heads-up that we plan to soon migrate our e-mail 
> lists from our CBA server to Google Groups to offload some of the 
> technical maintenance overhead so that we can spend more time with 
> observing, research, and community, and less with mail server 
> administration.  :-)
> 
> Thank you all for the kind words and patience as we retool and ramp up 
> again, and hopefully we'll also see you soon on Discord!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jonathan
> CBA Wellesley
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