Hi Dave, On 21 May 2013 17:30, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > <historian hat>
:-) > There is a guadec-planning mailing list. It was the primary mailing list > for (private) team communications from when I first became involved in > GUADEC planning until the Hague. Desktop Summit in Berlin used a > different forum, and I wasn't so involved in last year's organisation, > so it's entirely possible that the Coruna team used different processes. > There is a bug from 2011 asking to have the list "reset", but that bug > was closed, I'm still a member, and looking at the archives it doesn't > look like it was used then. So perhaps that "reset" never happened. > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-planning Interesting, I didn't know about this. It's not listed when you go to https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo . > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662045 > > > The guadec-planning list was the continuity channel - organisers from > previous years stayed subscribed in following years, and occasionally > shared their experiences with the local team. That ended when someone > (can't recall who - perhaps Behdad or Olav?) "cleaned up" the list one > year and unsubscribed everyone to resubscribe current organisers. > > Private email and f2f is bad for opening/tracing event organisation - > there's no opportunity to offer to participate, there's no record of > past discussions, there's no way for future generations to learn from > the past. > > As someone who invited keynotes for most of the past 10 years, I have > been surprised not to see lists of potential keynotes, or not to be > asked to invite some people I've suggested. I'm happy to defer to how > you want to do it, but I don't think this year has been optimal. > > </historian hat> Thanks for the perspective. >> There is a guadec-organization list that was created recently and is >> private that we could use for non-public discussions though we haven't >> been using it for that yet. It's currently just set as the default >> place where various email addresses @guadec.org end up so that the org >> team can deal with them in a distributed fashion. > > I would recommend switching to the traditional and long-established > guadec-planning instead of guadec-organization, before the new list > builds up a lot of traffic. I don't see why we shouldn't use that list indeed. I wouldn't have asked Andrea Veri to create gnome-organization if I knew about it. Rui _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
