[IAEP] [sugar] Fragmenting or providing a foothold?

[David Farning]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:46 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Zitat von Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> >
> > It's about economies of attention. Clay Shirky and Yochai Benkler are
> > probably the most insightful thinkers/writers on the matter. The
> > bottom line is (in my reading and experience):

I ordered clay shirky's latest book. Thanks for the reference! 

> > - do not split the meeting point until the signal/noise becomes
> > uneconomic for _most_ (not just for a loud minority)
> >
> My current take on the situation is that the lists hosted at laptop.org 
> should remain there for the moment being. I don't see any real value 
> and/or improvements in moving things to sugarlabs or elsewhere and 
> agree with Martin that such a split can potentially have quite a 
> negative impact on the community.

Christopher's statement sums up the consensus on this thread quite
well.  

Action: The lists remain as they are until the developers (the list
users) request that a sub-topic split off due to excess traffic.

thanks
dfarning