[IAEP] [support-gang] Suggestion to close some mailing lists

[Chris Leonard]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Pablo's question during eduJAM!'s "tools for community" panel about
> whether we have too many or too few tools and spaces got me thinking
> about improving the mailing lists setup we have at the moment.
>
> Sugar Labs' lists (http://lists.sugarlabs.org) seem fine at the moment
> with the possible exceptions of:
>
> * http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/italia (which Bernie says we
> should suggest to close)
> * http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-desarrollo/ (which has seen
> very little traffic indeed and most of that has been cross-posts from
> sugar-devel from what I can tell)
>
> However looking at the approximately 100 lists available on
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/ I think there's definitely room for
> improvements there. Looking into how active these lists are or aren't
> might be a good project for a rainy or sick day;-)
>
> One small initial idea which has come up is to merge
> olpc-open at lists.laptop.org with grassroots at lists.laptop.org and possible
> move the result into iaep since the traffic on both lists is very low
> indeed and they seem to provide very little value by themselves.
>
> What do people think about these suggestions and the topic in general?
>
>
Here is my analysis of lists.laptop.org.  Some calls are easy, others people
may feel differently about.   Feel free to follow the hotlinks in the first
column and make your own annotations and recommendations.  In any event, I
think lists targeted for closure or merging should be given the chance to
argue for their continuation.

The real question is who will make the final judgement calls and who would
implement them?

The link I sent earlier was wrong, this page should be updated if any
changes are made.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mailing_lists

cjl
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