Candrama listerv: Winding

[Craig Walker]

Hello,

This is just a correction of a point RobinWhittaker  made below, citing Jenn Stephenson about the future of listservs Queen's.  The Chief Information Officer at Queen's ---the head of all IT matters at the University--- told me this weekend that Jenn had been misinformed about any plan at Queen's to abandon listservs.  He imagined that it might have been confused information arising from the promotion of some alternative platforms for internal use only.  But he assured me that for the foreseeable future, Queen's will continue to support listservs and he basically confirmed what Natalie Harrower said about the ongoing usefulness of listservs for purposes such as ours.

So the short of it is that we will have a new listserv at Queen's ready to go this week to replace this one on a permanent basis if that is what is wanted.  But, if there is any advantage to it being hosted elsewhere, I will happily step back and delete ours.

All the best,
Craig

Craig Walker
Director of the Dan School of Drama and Music
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
Canada K7L 3N6

http://sdm.queensu.ca

(613) 533-2104
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From: Canadian Theatre Research [mailto:CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA] On Behalf Of Robin Whittaker
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 7:40 PM
To: CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
Subject: Candrama listerv: Winding

Hey there Candrama Subscribers,

Short version: As one who has been 'managing' this listerv most recently, and with my CATR Board hat off (goin' rogue here!), I'd like to suggest that Andy Houston sets up a listerv through U Waterloo and then posts to this listerv (well before Sept 1) the instructions on how to self-subscribe.

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Long version:

Well, this has been a heartening call to arms from Canadian-theatre-interested voices (fun fact: only 3 who have spoken are current CATR members, I'm informed). As Wes said, the CATR Board decided (by consensus) not to find another home for the listerv. I want to assure everyone this was not a brief discussion, though it did come down to the fact that not one of the 17 Board members, from 14 different institutions, volunteered, or felt they could volunteer, their institution's IT departments (e.g. mine does not host listervs anymore either, unfortunately, oh how I tried.....).

I'll take my CATR Board hat off for a moment to help with this, since I've been managing it for some time (Deborah, you'll note that I did acknowledge Ed and UNB for shepherding it!-Bravo again, Ed!).

We've heard offers from:

Michael Wallace (Theatre Museum)
Kathy Chung (U of T, but needs faculty/staff sponsorship)
Andy Houston / Toby Malone (U Waterloo)
Rebecca Burton / Robin Sokoloski (PGC)
Craig Walker (Queen's U-though Jenn has reported elsewhere that Queen's U won't support listervs for long)

My 'expert' view is that Michael and Andy (through Toby) have the strongest cases. But my hunch is that Andy's is stronger because U Waterloo has tech resources to spare (not to underestimate the Theatre Museum's resources). I'd like to suggest that Andy Houston sets up the hosting of Candrama at U Waterloo (he's contacted me offlist about it). The trick is that wherever it goes, there should be consistency: the flock shouldn't migrate every 2 years-and there are 425 emails on here, believe it or not!

By the way, I do not recommend existing emails be copied and pasted. As one of only 2 people who have been privy to the list of names, I can say that some of these emails are not of living people (!) and some (of the living) may not want to migrate. I'd suggest that Andy sets up the new Candrama listerv at U Waterloo and emails this list with instructions on how to self-subscribe.

Putting my CATR hat back on (or at least akimbo), there is a larger conversation here about whether CATR could better serve scholars, scholar-artists, and practitioners than it does presently. Of course, associations, by definitions, actively seek contributing, paying members, and CATR is always happy for conference paper/panel/seminar/roundtable/workshop/etc. proposals. And Candrama is, at its root, a communication device for like-minded folks. The CATR Board is always happy to hear from those interested/invested in Canadian theatre about how CATR can best serve the broad discipline.

All the best-and I hope this helps!

Robin.

- with hat on: Atlantic Representative, CATR

- with hat off:

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Dr. Robin C. Whittaker
Associate Professor
St. Thomas University, Fredericton NB E3B 5G3
Drama Advisor, Department of English
      http://w3.stu.ca/stu/academics/departments/english_lit
Artistic Producer, Theatre St. Thomas http://wp.stu.ca/tst
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