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There are many different ways to get involved with your local community
through FLORA. These range from participation in discussion groups, becoming a volunteer for FLORA, or using
FLORA resources to help some community group.
FLORA is host to a variety of discussion groups, and makes groups hosted
at other locations more accessible. Discussion groups come in two major
flavours: Mailing lists and Newsgroups.
- Weblog
- The FLORA Weblog is a recent
(April, 2001) addition to communications facilities at FLORA.
Participation from the general public can come in the form of submissions
of articles that may be of interest to people at FLORA, as well as
participating via the Reply feature of articles.
- Mailing Lists
- FLORA is the home to a variety of mailing lists. In simple terms a
mailing list is a list of email addresses. You send a message to a
special email address and your message is copied to all the other people
in that list. In this way you can discuss ideas with many people
together in Email.
A list of mailing lists is not only
available on the WEB but also directly from Majordomo. Instructions on
how to join the groups are also available.
- Send a message to majordomo@flora.org
- In the BODY of the message (Not the subject line), put the word:
lists
- To get a list of other commands from Majordomo, you may also want to
include the command:
help
- Newsgroups
- Newsgroups are similar to mailing lists in that a single message can
be read by many people, but are different in how the message is received,
and potentially in who the members of the discussion group are. Newsgroups
use a tool called a 'Newsreader', and are
most often shared amongst many different service providers.
FLORA has a number of newsgroups created by it's own volunteers. These
groups have a name that starts with 'flora.'. A list of 'flora.' newsgroups is
available on FLORA to make reading of these groups easy.
FLORA also makes reading Ottawa-Wide newsgroups easy as
well.
More information on
Newsgroups is
available.
- Email
- If you do not yet have an Email address, or are looking for an
alternative, FLORA might be able to help you here. FLORA offers a free
Email redirecting service, and volunteers get FREE mailboxes. Please ask
us for details.
If you have any further questions about discussion groups or Email, please
ask in the HELP discussion group.
To volunteer for FLORA, first you should decide what you would be
interested in doing. A list
of skills needed may give you some ideas. Once you know what you are
interested in, please just introduce yourself in the FLORA Helpdesk discussion group. We can then
discuss volunteer possibilities with you there.
If you have any further questions about volunteering for FLORA, please
ask in the HELP discussion group.
If you have any further questions about using FLORA tools, please
ask in the HELP discussion group.
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FLORA Community Web
(FLORA.ORG) is sponsored by FLORA
Community Consulting (FLORA.CA).