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The monkeysphere has a mailing list!

We've been working with a relatively bulky CC list since the inception of the monkeysphere concept, but we now have a mailing-list! It even has archives!

We started off with this CC list because we were interested in exploring distributed models of collaboration, communication and organization. Using the git VCS we were able to set up our development infrastructure to be totally distributed, but we soon realized that other aspects of the monkeysphere project needed to be accessible to the public, such as a project home page (although we could setup a system to distribute that), and a mailing list that people other than us could join and browse the archives (we've got some interesting ideas here too)...

So, although our all-distributed model has cracked a bit, it's mostly for want of tools to facilitate the process, and although we are eager to explore the mechanisms to make these things happen, we didn't want to keep the monkeysphere back while we did so.