Graham Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there actually large numbers of members not on the list? If so, > shouldn't the first step in improving communication and levels of > involvement be to try to get them to join the list?
There were 170 members on this list this morning and a casual inspection suggests that up to a third of these look like friends who I expect aren't AFFS members at this time. I think there's a 50/50 chance of others being members, but that's just a guess (sorry!) That's using a fsfe-uk-admin login, as the subscriber list display seems broken right now. It would be great if this list was promoted to AFFS members more, but I think Graham and Tom are right that more emphasis needs to go on the productive things that happen. Personally, I feel that the members of this list need to work on being free software leaders. Please, use this list as an information source and a recruiting ground for your own free software projects. For example, occasional news about open.egov.org.uk would probably remind me to contribute more (just tried - has it vanished now?) > Alex Hudson wrote: > >I don't think, though, that AFFS is used well enough as a > >news channel [...] To be an effective news channel alongside news:uk.comp.os.linux, news:comp.os.linux.announce and LUGs, I feel AFFS needs clear editorial policies, no ctte one-person vetoes and some promotion. For example, submission instructions on the "News" web page. Thanks for reading, -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
