Re: [MeeGo-community] An idea for fighting the 'CC:' syndrome in MeeGo: Alice, the MeeGo Secretary

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Carsten Munk wrote: > It is a difficult issue for sure, but one we really need to solve: Experience has shown that changing people's email behaviour in a durable way will not happen with the stick alone. People need to learn & understand the benefit of dealing in the open. So we need to be

Re: [MeeGo-community] An idea for fighting the 'CC:' syndrome in MeeGo: Alice, the MeeGo Secretary

2010-12-18 Thread Carsten Munk
2010/12/18 > I agree the CC syndrome is a problem, but I'm not sure that adding a CC > will fix it. > > One part of the problem is simply inertia: many people has just spent too > much time in CC discussions. Another part of the problem is that some people > don't want to bother more than the ind

Re: [MeeGo-community] An idea for fighting the 'CC:' syndrome in MeeGo: Alice, the MeeGo Secretary

2010-12-18 Thread quim.gil
I agree the CC syndrome is a problem, but I'm not sure that adding a CC will fix it. One part of the problem is simply inertia: many people has just spent too much time in CC discussions. Another part of the problem is that some people don't want to bother more than the individuals related to a

Re: [MeeGo-community] An idea for fighting the 'CC:' syndrome in MeeGo: Alice, the MeeGo Secretary

2010-12-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Carsten Munk wrote: > I'd like to think about downsides of my idea as well - what are people > scared about if we try to augment the general working project culture > with CC'ing me...@meego.com by adding it here and there to mail > conversations? The most obvious one is people won't do this

Re: [MeeGo-community] An idea for fighting the 'CC:' syndrome in MeeGo: Alice, the MeeGo Secretary

2010-12-09 Thread Carsten Munk
2010/12/9 Shane Bryan : > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:21:39 +0100 > Carsten Munk wrote: > > I would suggest a name other than "alice" though, for two reasons: > 1) For those of us who *are* in corporate environments, we need it to > be *REALLY* obvious that the CC list is (or is not) including public >

Re: [MeeGo-community] An idea for fighting the 'CC:' syndrome in MeeGo: Alice, the MeeGo Secretary

2010-12-09 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Shane Bryan wrote: I would suggest a name other than "alice" though, for two reasons: [snip] In lieu of alice, what about j.q.pub...@meego.com, to play off the oft used alias for anonymous citizens (where J==[Jane|John]). Or perhaps kib...@meego.com -gabriel _

Re: [MeeGo-community] An idea for fighting the 'CC:' syndrome in MeeGo: Alice, the MeeGo Secretary

2010-12-09 Thread Shane Bryan
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:21:39 +0100 Carsten Munk wrote: > Hi all, > > So, one of the biggest issues we have in MeeGo is the fact that most > project discussions are going on along this pattern: > > * Bill needs to get something done. He sends an email and CC's a bunch > of people who needs to be

[MeeGo-community] An idea for fighting the 'CC:' syndrome in MeeGo: Alice, the MeeGo Secretary

2010-12-08 Thread Carsten Munk
Hi all, So, one of the biggest issues we have in MeeGo is the fact that most project discussions are going on along this pattern: * Bill needs to get something done. He sends an email and CC's a bunch of people who needs to be in the loop to get the thing in question discussed done. instead of o