I agree with Rich on making the email address as simple as possible. But the point William brought is actually very interesting, because Community is where this cross-project communication should be really happen. So I'll try to figure out how to accommodate that in https://community.apache.org
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 05/12/2016 09:20 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > > What committee is responsible for such lists? > > > > I think community itself is a good choice, parking these lists within > > geospatial-dev@community.a.o would better reflect that relationship. > > > > > I was talking with someone about this - George Percivall, I believe - > and the intent is that such a list would be promoted to the Geospatial > communities, who are largely outside of Apache, to engage them in the > discussion happening here. As such, the simplest possible email address > has the benefit of people remembering it when it appears on slides at > other Geospatial conferences. geospatial-dev@community.a.o is quite a > mouthful. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bill > > On May 12, 2016 10:47 AM, "Rich Bowen" <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 05/12/2016 08:01 AM, Sergio Fernández wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> as part of the discussions we have had these days in Vancouver, some of > >> the > >>> projects involved in the Geospatial track of the conference (mainly SIS > >> and > >>> Marmotta) we have been discussing that we'd like to have a common space > >>> where discussing about common things. So far I do no see such common > >> space > >>> for other topics. > >>> > >>> A geospatial@a.o mailing list could serve that purpose, as well as an > >> entry > >>> point for other communities (OGC, Eclipse LocationTech, etc). > >>> > >>> So, after discussing it with some folks here, I feel like bringing it > up > >>> here is a good way to figure out how we can materialize such idea. > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance for all your feedback. > >>> > >> > >> This absolutely needs to happen, and I applaud you for making it happen. > >> As Ross says, you can open a ticket with Infra, but I'll bet that if one > >> of you who is here in Vancouver approaches one of the Infra guys, you > >> can make it happen even faster. They're awesome and helpful. > >> > >> I would also love to see some of our other project groups do a similar > >> thing. It's also a great point of engagement for people that are new to > >> our projects, who understand the technology areas, but aren't familiar > >> with individual project names.. > >> > >> The question that I would have would be where we can most effectively > >> promote these cross-project lists. I presume that each participating > >> project would list it on their mailing lists pages, but we'd also want > >> to have them on projects.apache.org. Where else? > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > >> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > >> > >> > > > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > -- Sergio Fernández Partner Technology Manager Redlink GmbH m: +43 6602747925 e: sergio.fernan...@redlink.co w: http://redlink.co
