Mark Stopka wrote:
Good luck convincing zoomers to join mailing lists... they are just not wired that way anymore,
Oh no, I wasn't suggesting we revert to those days, I only wanted to point out that lack of choice made it easier. What you wrote is the problem in a nutshell, people use whatever they prefer, unfortunately thus splitting the community. In the old days, we solved that by bi-directionally gating some of the communications forms.
we are solving exactly this issue at the moment in different OSS project, and all we managed to come up with (majority of community are < millennials (I am millennial) and they want Telegram, Discord,... the most we managed to convince them is to subscribe to few announce-* mailing-lists...
Maybe you have a fairly well-defined community, the majority of members being < 40, but I don't think we have that luxury here.
TL;DR OGs are getting OGed... :)
I have no idea what that means ? I asked my son, age 17, didn't know either :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.1°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes