On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:04 PM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Some of you may have seen:
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+University
> >
> > I also emailed about the Google Summer of Code.
> >
> > Kelcey mentioned creating an edu mailing list.
> >
> > I have not particular feelings about this and I wanted to discuss it.
> >
> > GSoC will be across dev and users. Students are expected to join the
> community, work on JIRA and submitted patches etc..
> > ACSEDU will be across dev/users and marketing.
> >
> > Instead of creating a list maybe we can just use tags/labels in emails:
> >
> > [GSOC] and [ACSEDU]
> >
> > The only issue I see is that there will be information that is relevant
> to all lists and I don't want to leave anyone out.
> >
> > Thoughts ?
> >
> > -Sebastien
>
> The goal of GSOC is to embed folks in the open source community they
> are working in. Not to shuffle them off to some low-volume list to
> isolate them from the flow of mail that is dev@. (as well as commits@,
> issues@, and users@)
>
> For better or worse dev@ is voluminous, and GSOC folks need to learn
> to operate in that environment, and operate as a part of the dev
> community.
>
> ACSEDU might be slightly different, but I worry about fragmenting our
> community. Dev@ should really be where things happen.
>

+1 Pl. don't create more mailing lists!


>
> --David
>

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