An NGO that has been using Mailman for years now wants to transition to Discourse.
The switch should be smooth—ideally, it should be possible to use both (the old mailing list and Discourse) for posting during the phase-out period. (The user base is accustomed to email and not very familiar with new services.)
The NGO is based in Austria/Vienna. German-speaking candidates are preferred.
When: To be discussed, depending on available resources.
Budget: Actually, we first need to get an idea of how much we will need.
I have a German last name, but don’t speak German. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend discussing discourse.org hosting as they may do the migration for you if you pay for business hosting for a year, and they have at least one person who speaks German.
Typically it’s best to do some trial migrations to get it dialed in, and then freeze the old system during the transition (typically 1-24 hours). Running two systems in parallel is a recipe for disaster and pain.
We can take care of the transistion for you, and take care of European hosting (Frankfurt) as well.
PM me for details. In order to give you a good estimate, we need some more information like how many messages / users we’re dealing with.
Obwohl Deutsch nicht meine Muttersprache ist, spreche ich es ausreichend und verstehe es sehr gut
