[Arisaema-l] Activity of the AEG, is this group in danger?

[Peter Taggart]

Dear Eric, Christopher, and other AEG members.
I have been unable to keep up with plant interests over the past few years,
and am nominally a member of many plant groups on Facebook. I have not
taken part in them for several years and will not start again, because of
the blatant censorship of covid information, and vaccine harms that has
been carried out on Facebook, and other platforms.  They also perform a
great deal of nudging of various other agendas, basically good for
governments and large multinational companies, but very destructive to
society.
One forum which I used to frequent, and hope to do so again, is the
Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum, which has sections and threads on many
plant groups. It is searchable, and indexed. I am sure that the AEG could
create a niche in a corner of that forum, with the Scottish Rock Garden
Club's blessings.
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=cfca3d48040d5a23ef4883aca506034d&action=forum

https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18367.msg419261#msg419261

I am now rescuing the remains of my bulb collection, after 10 years of
neglect, and plan to expand it including the growing of more aroids.

Best wishes
Peter.

On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, 12:45 Christopher Gussman via Arisaema-L, <
arisaema-l at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:

> A Facebook group may be the way to go, as photos can be easily included
> with questions and discussions. There is already one Arisaema Facebook
> group I bet many members here are already a part of. In some ways I miss
> the old forums and list serves but I think they are becoming fossils in the
> cyber museum.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 6, 2022, at 5:10 AM, Gouda, E.J. (Eric) via Arisaema-L <
> arisaema-l at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Dear AEG members,
>
> It seems that the only activity left in our group is the Seed Exchange,
> which is maybe because of the use of our old fashioned email discussion
> list. From the Archives we can learn that there are little or no
> discussions beside the SeedEx messages. We have our own FloraPix Gallery
> that can be used to post pictures, but also discuss plants. It is really a
> pity that it has not been used much over the last years.
>
> My question is, should we switch to for example Facebook with our group to
> activate and modernize our group? Or are we becoming a fossil group?
> Unfortunately Ray Stilwell became too old and left the group in 2007, he
> was the motor of the group and was not replaced. I was involved in 1997 or
> maybe even before and created the email list and started organizing the
> website and SeedEx, which I run for over 20 years now.
>
> If we want to continue the group, I think we need somebody like Ray who
> keeps the group enthusiastic and going (live discussions etc.). I could be
> involved for the website, seed list and gallery if needed, but will be not
> much longer in current position at the Botanic Garden (1.5 year max, have
> reached the age of 65 some time ago).
>
> It is up to you, lets start discuss our future now, before it is too late.
>
> All the best,
>
> Eric
>
>
> --
>
> All the best, / Met vriendelijke groet,
> Eric
>
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