On 2011-04-01 Henne wrote:
Hey,
On 04/01/2011 09:48 AM, Helen South wrote:
The Aussie Ambassador, Tim Serong and I agree that a mailing list is the preferred means of communication for Australian users. With our presence in Australia growing stronger, a separate list for local discussion would allow us to activities and events without cluttering other lists.
Do you really fear that? I mean the ambassadors list has on average less then 100 mails a month. That makes roughly 3 mails a day. If anything this list is on life support and needs more traffic to be really useful don't you think?
Well, three mails a day is nothing for you and me and spam for some. Anyway. So you think the dutch should send their mails via the ambassador list in dutch, like the greek and all other countries in their own language? It's possible, it is just pretty unlikely that people will like it very much. And as I mentioned before (and that's pretty obvious in chuck's case) having an own mailinglist has the simple advantage of being a teambuilding thing. The dutch KDE team uses the translation mailinglist to discuss everything - from events to website building and of course translating. The dutch openSUSE translators use a mailinglist not on openSUSE infrastructure. Some other translation teams have addresses like opensuse-it@opensuse.org - which imho makes sense. So I'm going to ask on the NL openSUSE translation mailinglist if they are ok with moving to opensuse-nl@opensuse.org and I'll ask the ppl who are currently discussing stuff by using CC to join that list too. I simply don't feel comfortable asking them to join me on the ambassador list while talking dutch. Guess it's more of a feeling than a rational thing but it's real nonetheless. I think each team should do what they prefer and if chuck wants a local USA ML, or an USA&Canada ML, he should ask it and get it :D Cheers, Jos
I know there's been some discussion around local lists recently - was there any consensus regarding use of email lists?
Not really. Chuck asked for a geographic region based approach, I asked if language based would be okay too because this means less work for me on the list server and then the discussion was not very conclusive for me so I didn't do anything...
Who should I ask to approve and implement the list?
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Services_help#mailinglists.2Flists.op ensuse.org
Henne