dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

A request to Members, Moderators, and Owners of Google+ Communities

Through several recent conversations, I'm realising that G+ Communities need to both migrate their users and the community itself, ranging from small groups to 400,000+ member, 2,000-3,3000 monthly post groups.

I think some tools for that are missing -- there’s no “export Community” button, for example -- and there's a lot of confusion over ''what'' to do, ''when'', or ''how''.

The Google+ Mass Migration Community (2,300 members since 8 October) is the largest I know of on Google+ itself dealing with this problem, and we're collecting and organising information on contacts, practices, possible destinations, Google tools, and more.

With the voice and members of larger communities, the whole G+ Mass Migration effort has more sway. We’re 2,300 voices now, it would be Really Nice to say “hi, we’re representing about 50,000 (or 500,000, or 5 million) Google+ users, we’re looking for a new home, and we’d like to talk Features and Stuff We Care About with you”.

There is power in numbers and unity, that's an attractive pull, and can make things happen, especially representing multiple engaged and cohesive groups.

Would you be interested in getting the word out about Google+ Mass Migration:
https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772

If you're a mod or owner, engage with your members, if you're a member, recruit your moderator(s) and community owners.

And the #PlexodusWiki, which has been getting populated with information detailing goals, plans, schedules, data migration, and potential target platforms. It is agnostic to destination, and doesn’t pretend to speak for all Google+ users and groups, but to help each in their own process of moving communities forward.

See:

The text of this post should be a good template or copy or adapt for posting to your communities.

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