my mistake On Dec 4, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Sarah Manley wrote:
> No just talk-us, not the actually lists were contacted. > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM, SteveC <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > I thought I mailed all the talk-us-* lists when I asked for input? > > On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Sarah Manley wrote: > > > Agreed that at this point in time, having everything centralized here is > > the best way forward. > > > > I would like to make a request for the future though, that if a list is > > marked for deletion that a message is sent out on that list informing them. > > (maybe a week ahead of time). I was the admin for the bay area list and > > didn't know if was deleted until my email to it bounced. It would have been > > helpful to let folks know, and encourage them to enlist here if they > > weren't already (or to join the meetup group which is now being used at the > > local event list as well). At this point in the project, we can use as many > > mappers as possible, and don't want to lose folks who may only be involved > > on a localized level. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Sarah > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:03:22 -0800 > > From: Dave Hansen <d...@sr71.net> > > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] San Francisco / Bay area projects > > To: Dale Puch <dale.p...@gmail.com> > > Cc: talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > Message-ID: <1259769802.24696.2521.ca...@nimitz> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 03:55 -0500, Dale Puch wrote: > > > I think the idea was that there wasn't that much traffic that it would > > > bother the talk-us group, and what was there the rest of us could > > > possible benefit from. > > > > Yeah, that's what I took from it too. > > > > It will be a wonderful day when we have so much activity on this list > > that there's a desperate need to break it up somehow. As talk-us list > > dictator, I hereby declare that any local discussions about anywhere in > > the country are more than welcome here. :) > > > > -- Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:18:57 -0800 > > From: SteveC <st...@asklater.com> > > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] San Francisco / Bay area projects > > To: Dave Hansen <d...@sr71.net> > > Cc: Dale Puch <dale.p...@gmail.com>, talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > Message-ID: <eb9f7ae1-b080-4092-86aa-a65229fdd...@asklater.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > agreed > > > > multiple empty lists are sub-optimal, and what we saw in Europe was that > > local events, published on a national scale encouraged people to travel > > long distances to them, and prodded competition to start other events where > > people couldn't make it. > > > > Yours &c. > > > > Steve > > > > > > >>_______________________________________________ > > >>Talk-us mailing list > > >>Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > >>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > >> > > This may very well already be the defacto standard, but if not, might I > > suggest that we establish a best practice of prefixing subjects which are > > regionally directed with a 2-4 character region prefix followed by a colon? > > > > NY: has already been used. > > other states also would be by postal code abbreviation > > > > > > If you need a broader or narrower region, such as New England (NwEn?) or > > SF/Bay area (SFB?), etc. then as long as you don't step on a state, if you > > get there first, it's yours. > > > > This would allow those who are interested in a particular region to be > > "pricked" by the prefix, and would also make it easy to search the list > > for regionally specific entries. > > > > Anything without a prefix would be of general US interest. > > > > -- > > Randy > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > Yours &c. > > Steve > > Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
