We have a mailing list
Posted by Jo Cook on July 13, 2012
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2013
This will be a public list that anyone interested in foss4g 2013 can subscribe to- we should use it for any non-confidential announcements/discussions with the outside world etc. Please all subscribe, and I'll stick a note out to the discuss lists about it too.
Thanks
Jo
This will be a public list that anyone interested in foss4g 2013 can subscribe to- we should use it for any non-confidential announcements/discussions with the outside world etc. Please all subscribe, and I'll stick a note out to the discuss lists about it too.
Thanks
Jo
Comments
Jo Cook on July 13, 2012:
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/foss4g2013-private
OSGeo would like us to use that for all of our confidential discussions. I'm not sure how one goes about signing up to that yet, but again I am admin so no doubt it will become clear shortly.
Rather than double-handling things with respect to discussions in basecamp as well, I think we should use the mailing list for discussions with osgeo and our more mundane things, like "when's the next meeting" and so on can be done on here. Basically the mailing list is archivable and searchable so really useful for future LOCs.
All the best
Jo
Rollo Home on July 13, 2012:
I don't really like the idea of having multiple work areas, however Jo's proposal makes sense as at least with BaseCamp we can share documents, set-up tasks etc...which we can't do with the mailing list.
Jo, when I try that link it asks me for a password. Is that something you can share? Do we require our own?
Jo Cook on July 13, 2012:
Which link are you trying, Rollo? The public or private? I'm still trying to ensure they are set up correctly as there are issues posting to them, so I am hassling the sys admins at OSGeo about that at the moment. I'll let you know when they are working OK
Jo
Peter Batty on July 13, 2012:
Also, I very highly recommend that you read the lessons learned from previous events:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Lessons_Learned (and earlier ones linked from there)
I'm sure it's not comprehensive, but there's a lot of useful stuff in there I think. I encourage you to create a 2013 lessons learned page now and populate it as you go along, for the benefit of future generations :) !!
Jo Cook on July 13, 2012:
Jo
Rollo Home on July 13, 2012:
Jo, I've subscribed to the public mailing list without any problems. The private one (not surprisingly) requires a password. It was this that I was wondering how you were going to administer (if indeed it is anything to do with you?!).
(PS I'll bring some cider up the F2F - remind me nearer the time).
Jo Cook on July 14, 2012:
I've subscribed everyone to the private list (well, everyone who's on basecamp anyhow) so you should have an email welcoming you. Yes it's me that administers it- if we need additional admins that's cool.
Basic wordpress site is now up and running, and I've submitted a ticket to get the 2013.foss4g.org domain pointed at it- once that's done and I can finish the settings, I'll assign admin usernames to you guys so you can get posting.
Jo
Chris Holcroft on July 14, 2012:
Regards
Chris Holcroft
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Chris Holcroft on July 14, 2012:
Regards
Chris Holcroft
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Steven Feldman on July 16, 2012:
????
Steven
Jo Cook on July 16, 2012:
Because unless we keep paying for basecamp in perpetuity then nothing will be archived for future LOCs to look at, and "because that's the way it has always been done"...
It's up to us if we actually use it, after all... but it might be useful for these contract discussions we need to have, if I sign up peter, paul ramsey and the other board members.
Thoughts?
Jo
Steven Feldman on July 16, 2012:
How about we use private mail list for communications with the board only and we use basecamp for all of our internal comms? We can also use basecamp as our doc drop for the project although we may choose to use Google docs for some collaborative documents, particularly spreadsheets.
When the conference is over and we want to wind up our basecamp service we can export everything using this feaure http://help.37signals.com/basecamp/questions/164-can-we-export-our-basecamp-data
The public mailing list should be one of multiple ways (twitter, website) that we communicate with the OSGeo community and through which they can contact us.
I will go along with whatever the majority prefer but we should all have a shared understanding of what we are using for what.
steven
Jo Cook on July 16, 2012:
Yes to using it for comms with the board- and the conf committee- I guess the best thing I can do is ask the board and Paul who should be on the list then I can register them.
Jo
Jeremy Morley on July 16, 2012:
Jo Cook on July 16, 2012:
Jo
Steven Feldman on July 16, 2012:
Jo Cook on July 16, 2012:
Rollo Home on July 16, 2012:
It's clear the discussion lists can become echo chambers - having multiple people jumping in with a response can lead to a lot of additional work being created. As two nations divided by a common language we have to careful of the potential of poor communication creating unnecessary issues ;-)