[BCFSN] Need input: Do we continue this listserv?

[Tblynne]

Hi Abra,
I’ve been on the list serve since GE Free BC days. I still find the shared information informative, sometimes educational and often inspiring to dream what is possible. I would like to see it continue and am also willing to contribute to the costs.

Thank you for keeping this important connection going forward so long.

Kind regards, Teresa

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 4, 2022, at 2:32 PM, Abra Brynne <abrabrynne at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello all,
> the BC Food Systems Network has not had a budget nor any active staff / volunteers for some years now, other than my moderation of a few listservs. To do this, our web host has scaled back our service but it still costs $200 / year and my time to occasionally moderate the listservs. 
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> QUESTION: is this still a valuable service? And if it is, is there another way that it can be maintained? Should be let our web presence go and shift to a google group instead? Or is any organization able to take this one to keep it going?
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> I am torn, since I have little time to devote to keeping this going and yet our Network, this community, has long been a leader in the country, linking people across the vast geography that is our province. When we started in 1999, few of us had any ability to connect and get to know each other. Is this still valuable?
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> Before I pay, out of pocket, for another year of a web presence and this listserv, I thought I would put the question out to the community to get insights into our path forward - together or, perhaps, not.
> in good food,
> Abra
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