[OH-Dev] Meeting to discuss mailing lists | was: [issue940] Write an informative, welcoming wiki page that lists the 5 most important OpenHatch email lists

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

For anyone who'se interested, Asheesh, Britta and myself will be meeting
this Fri (the 28th) from 12-1 pst to discuss clarifying, re-purposing, and
otherwise making the OH mailing lists easier to use.  Anyone with an
opinion on the subject is welcome to join us.


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> I made this wiki page a while back, out of frustration with the mailing
> lists, but I never finished and it's not particularly welcoming:
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/OpenHatch_Mailing_Lists
>
> I am very much in favor of making the list of mailing lists prettier.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Britta Gustafson <brittag at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think this may be successfully solved without an additional wiki page!
>>
>> I am seeing two goals here: #1 is make our important mailing lists easy &
>> appealing to subscribe to, and #2 is make our list of mailing lists nicer
>> and more helpful to read.
>>
>> For goal #1, we could improve this by making sure the important mailing
>> lists are easy to find at the moment when people are likely to be
>> interested in them. We already sort of have an "important mailing lists"
>> page at https://openhatch.org/wiki/Contact - we could flesh this out and
>> add the missing important ones, Announce and OSCTC-Planning. And looking at
>> how we're using other potential moments of interest:
>>
>> * For Announce, we could also add the "subscribe to our monthly
>> newsletter" widget from the blog sidebar (http://openhatch.org/blog/) to
>> the homepage.
>> * Devel is already linked from the website footer, nicely in context.
>> * Events is prominently linked from the homepage.
>> * OSCTC-Planning is linked from http://campus.openhatch.org/ under "Get
>> started".
>> * Peers is an odd one, but at least it's linked on the Contact page. I'm
>> not sure where else to put it.
>>
>> We might add Publicity as a sixth important list, since we use it a lot,
>> it's public, and it's something that new volunteers can help with. We could
>> add this to https://openhatch.org/wiki/Get_involved and the Contact page.
>>
>> For goal #2, we could make the list of mailing lists prettier. I've
>> attached an HTML mockup that adds more descriptions, notes in descriptions
>> which lists are private, and divides the list into sections: "OpenHatch
>> announcements and discussions that are fun for everyone", "Other OpenHatch
>> logistics and projects", "Open Source Comes to Campus, specific campuses
>> and regions", "Community projects", and "Archived OpenHatch mailing lists
>> (inactive)".
>>
>> Britta
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <bugs at openhatch.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> New submission from Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>:
>>>
>>> Right now, http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo is kind of long
>>> and
>>> uninviting.
>>>
>>> We could do a lot better than this by having a wiki page that listed the
>>> important mailing lists.
>>>
>>> In the pursuit of achievable, useful, measurable goals, this ticket
>>> suggests we
>>> should make a wiki page documenting 5 of them.
>>>
>>> Asheesh's guess as to the most important 5:
>>>
>>> * Announce
>>> * Devel
>>> * Events
>>> * OSCTC-Planning
>>> * Peers
>>>
>>> (not that we've really used Peers in ages... but maybe we should more
>>> !??)
>>>
>>> I'm probably missing one or two amazingly important ones above. Whoever
>>> writes
>>> this should feel free to make their own list of 5 important lists.
>>>
>>> ----------
>>> messages: 4134
>>> nosy: paulproteus
>>> priority: bug
>>> status: unread
>>> title: Write an informative, welcoming wiki page that lists the 5 most
>>> important OpenHatch email lists
>>>
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>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
>>
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