[OH-Dev] Fri, Feb 28, 12 PM Pacific: IRC meeting to discuss email lists

[Asheesh Laroia]

WHERE: #openhatch on irc.freenode.net

WHAT: Discuss how we can re-organize the email lists, perhaps including new
ideas for laying out lists.openhatch.org , perhaps include ideas for lists
we can/should delete

USEFUL LINKS: http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo
http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events/
http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
http://jeweledplatypus.org/listinfo.html
http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2014-February/003454.html
https://openhatch.org/wiki/OpenHatch_Mailing_Lists

WHEN: 12 PM Pacific, 2014-02-28 (aka tomorrow)

To convert to your time zone, run this command:

$ date -d '2014-02-28T12:00:00-0800'

On my system, it outputs:

Fri Feb 28 12:00:00 PST 2014

See some of you there.




On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>> __________________________________________
>>>> Roundup issue tracker <bugs at openhatch.org>
>>>> <https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue940>
>>>> __________________________________________
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Devel mailing list
>>>> Devel at lists.openhatch.org
>>>> http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Devel mailing list
>>> Devel at lists.openhatch.org
>>> http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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