[Peakoil] Fwd: [roeoz] ***ALL CLEAR TO ANNOUNCE ASPO AUSTRALIA***

[Alex P]

An Australian Peak Oil group is being formed to give Peak Oil the profile 
and academic credibility it deserves. It will not however be a campaigning 
body, unlike the city-based groups such as act-peakoil.org.

There are proposals below for web-hosting options and so forth, see what 
you think

Alex
O4O4873828

ACT Peak Oil discussion list
http://act-peakoil.org


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***ASPO AUSTRALIA***
ASPO OZ will have the ACADEMIC credibility to help "convert" Aussies if 
they are 
intellectually inclined. It will be formerly launched in November when 
Kjell Aleklett visits 
Australia for the launch and some other presentations.  ASPO will be in 
WA
 so logistical 
issues relating to distance can be overcome using the internet, phone, and 
mailing DVD's 
and any other resources that they will be no doubt accumulating.

***SBS DOCUMENTARY***
The other exciting news is that Rowan from SPO has verbal authority with 
his producer at 
SBS for a PEAK OIL DOCUMENTARY focussing on the facts of peak oil, and the 
formation of 
ASPO. ASPO was the final draw card that convinced him. So as long as SBS 
upper 
management approve the funds, November could see an SBS documentary coming 
out.

***LIMITATIONS OF ASPO***
However, as Bruce Robinson said, it will be partly government funded. Even 
he 
acknowledges the need for other CAMPAIGNING bodies to "tell it like it is" 
on other peak 
oil issues. ASPO will mainly concentrate on some of the facts of oil 
depletion and begin to 
touch on the consequences... but as you know, a government-sponsored body 
is hardly 
going to have the freedom to advocate Lifeboats as the only answer, if 
your personal "Mad 
Max Index" is really high. ASPO will have to deal more in the academic 
credibility of oil 
depletion and emphasise the normal solutions such as increased public 
transport etc.

Population growth, global warming, environmental degradation, other 
resource depletion, 
money systems
 many of these other important peak oil subjects could fall 
through the 
cracks. That is where the city groups come in.

***GENEROUS OFFER***
Ian McPherson has offered to set up a state by state citypeakoil.com forum 
list to 
encourage local groups to form. We love our software! It makes following 
individual 
threads and whole SUBJECTS more interesting. IE: If you are done 
discussing alternative 
energy to death
 don't go into that forum. If you don't want to read 
personal news, don't 
go into that forum. If you mainly want to concentrate on what's happening 
with 
campaigning news
 then go into that forum!

This is the great phpBB software that peakoil.com uses. Check out 
Sydneypeakoil.com and 
how it works.

Ian would buy the website names
 brisbanepeakoil.com, 
melbournepeakoil.com, 
adelaidepeakoil.com, etc (maybe we don't need to do perth as STC and ASPO 
will already 
be over there), Ian would give them some unique city based logo and 
design
 and we'd 
be away.

Also, in case Yahoo decided to charge for groups (as per the recent 
meetup.com 
catastrophe) we could even consider setting up peakoilaustralia.com or 
(australiapeakoil.com) and get you all to use this great software! It 
REALLY makes 
following threads easier, Mike can appoint other moderators to help 
monitor various 
forums, etc. EG: I'm set up as a moderator in the peak oil forum of 
theenvironmentsite.org 
website I was talking about a while back. I'm not a moderator in ANY other 
forum. Within 
that forum they have one thread that examines the price of oil
 that's ALL 
it does.

Why should we all move across to branded website names and the phpBB 
software? 
1/ Consistent branding across Australia
2/ Ease of use, attractiveness.
3/ australiapeakoil.com will be tidied up, and a NATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 
forum can 
be set up for special CAMPAIGN announcements. EG: National letters 
campaign on 
something specific, a day of protest, a ROEOZ (ozpeakoil.com) movie, etc.
4/ The software really encourages tidy posting. It's just SO much easier 
than an email 
format chatroom like ROEOZ where you subscribe to every single email and 
get email 
overload. You can subscribe to various threads if you want
 or just browse 
your favourite 
forums online in an attractive website format.
Just browse www.sydneypeakoil.com for a bit.
5/ The city groups would be about campaigning in that city to the local 
residents and to 
the local & state governments, harnessing the energy of people who meet 
each other and 
become friends. IE: We'd get something DONE! 

What do you all think? Shall we get Ian to do it? He doesn't think it 
would cost too much 
more than $100 to go ahead and register the names, and he already has 
server space to 
burn.

Will we get him to set it all up so that each state has it's own 
citypeakoil.com format? 

What do you think about getting Ian to set up Australiapeakoil.com and 
leaving this rather 
untidy list? (I'm sorry if that offends anyone but I hold loyalty to peak 
oil, not Yahoo
 
especially as they use courier font and line breaks get all messy! You get 
to add smileys 
and bold fonts and all sorts of cool visual communicators in our 
sydneypeakoil.com 
software.)

We are not trying to usurp Mike's position in ROEOZ
 he would still be 
administrator at 
australiapeakoil.com. We just sincerely want to facilitate this news 
getting out as soon as 
possible.

Sorry this idea didn't spring up before you logged into google groups for 
Melbourne peak 
oil Sheila. This software makes delegating other moderators SO much 
easier, and i think 
you will find it much, much more professional looking. Better to just move 
everyone across 
now, don't you think?

I hope I have not offended anyone. Please consider! (Oh no, that was a 
Mistubishi add once 
wasn't it?  ;-)





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