[ncc-announce] [news] Introducing the RIPE Forum

Dear colleagues,

There’s a new way to participate on the RIPE Working Group mailing
lists: the RIPE Forum, a web-based interface for reading and sending
emails on RIPE community mailing lists.

We developed the RIPE Forum in-house based on feedback we received from
members of the RIPE community who wanted the option to interact and
share information in a more modern way.

It’s important to note that this new interface is completely optional
– those who like using the established mailing list system can continue as
they always have, and won’t notice any difference.

Several weeks ago the RIPE Forum was deployed on the RIPE Atlas mailing
list as a pilot. The test was a success, with no major issues detected,
and very positive comments were received from users.
We presented the results to the RIPE Working Group Chairs and, based on
their feedback, decided to deploy the RIPE Forum to all RIPE Working
Group mailing lists.

We invite you to have a look yourself:
     https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum/

We created a special mailing list for testing purposes, so that any
conversations about the platform itself can be contained there without
disrupting the regular flow of discussions on the RIPE Working Group
mailing lists. Feel free to send test messages and try out the RIPE
Forum on this special list:
     https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum/ripe-forum-test

If you’d like to learn more about how the RIPE Forum works or the
background behind the project, please take a look at the presentation
given last week during RIPE 72 and the RIPE Labs article that was
published for the pilot phase:
     https://ripe72.ripe.net/archives/video/242/
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/marco_schmidt/introducing-the-ripe-forum

The forum is still in “beta” phase – there might still be some bugs and
we are continuously working to improve things, so please keep that in
mind while exploring the forum. You can give your feedback by clicking
on the “Report a bug” button on the forum, or leave a comment on the
above RIPE Labs article.

We hope you’ll enjoy the RIPE Forum, and we look forward to your
feedback!

Kind regards,

Marco Schmidt
Policy Development Officer
RIPE NCC