[Savannah-hackers-public] DFEY-NW rename to DFEY?

[Tim Dobson]

Hi there Sylvain and Savannah Hackers!

I'm Tim Dobson, about a year ago now, myself and Ben Webb set up DFEY-NW 
(Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West) on Savannah.

Whilst we aren't strictly a GUG, we are essentially a free software 
group. ( http://www.gnu.org/gnu/fs-user-groups.html#UK )

When we set up DFEY-NW originally, we were thinking mainly about the 
short term - getting a group of young people who were interested in the 
issues surrounding freedom in the digital world and meeting up in real 
life and online.

We've been quite successful at doing that, our mailing list now has 40+ 
people on it, we get a regular turn out to DFEY-NW meetings, we have 
over 30 entries from the local tech community for our Logo Competition 
and we've worked with a local free software/open data co-operative 
(plings.net) to help find funding to assist us going to free software 
development events.

We've started to work with local schools,colleges and universities to 
get technically adept young people involved with free software and 
DFEY-NW with some success.

Since we originally started DFEY-NW we have heard time and time again of 
young people located in other regions of Great Britain who are really 
interested in DFEY-NW, but due to DFEY-NW being centred around real life 
meetups and real life collaboration as much as it is about online 
collaboration, it's difficult for them to be funny involved.

As was originally intended, DFEY (Digital Freedom in Education & Youth) 
is now a network of local DFEY branches in several regions of Great 
Britain who naturally need to be able to communicate with other people 
in their area.

Currently, the Savannah group we have is:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dfey-nw/

However, this is somewhat problematic as it means although we can easily 
create mailing lists such as dfey-nw-discuss and dfey-nw-admin, to get a 
list created for those in a different area, they need to go through the 
whole project creation process on Savannah, just to get a list. This not 
only takes really quite a long time, but it also somewhat decentralises 
the motives and values of DFEY.

I wondered whether it would be at all possible for you to rename or some 
how change the savannah project:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dfey-nw/

to

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dfey/

so that we can relatively quickly launch a dfey-se-discuss mailing list, 
with dfey-$[city|region]-discuss etc being the standard form for lists.

I hope this makes sense, if it is at all possible in any way, that would 
be fantastic! :)

If you have any questions, please do feel free to get in touch,

Thanks,

Tim Dobson
(DFEY-NW co-organiser)

www.dfey.org