<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 April 2016 at 09:01, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">I admin sugar-sur. Not too active but not dead either. Just a couple
of days ago I pinged and got a couple of responses (one of them from
Ministry of Education staff). It's also our only semi-active spanish list, has a long history and
I was hoping to bring it back to life sometime.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>I kindly assert that it is harmful to the project to have all these "not too active but not dead either" lists :) <br><br>Setting a list 'read only' is done simply by turning on strict moderation, and not tending to the moderation queue. If you want to tend to the moderation queue, so that anyone who does email such a list without seeing that we encourage everyone to post in the same consolidated small set of lists, will not see their message lost in the void, that would be great :) <br><br></div><div>I think asking remaining subscribers to newly subscribe to a new sugar-discuss list is a good idea, as it will give us a real sense of the size of the community. I think that it is also good to have the list being multilingual - in the days of translate tools integrated into email clients or readily available, it can be great :) </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
I also took overt volunteer administratorship of IAEP (along with
Laura and Martin Dengler) and sugar-devel (along Laura and James
Cameron), when others dropped the ball silently (along with Election
and Membership committee).<br>
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In the past some thought was given to mix mailing-list with a forum
front end (e.g. upgrading to Mailman3?). <br>
Frankly I don't think mailing lists are a barrier to entry; they
haven't been in the past.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>I think email mailing lists are far superior to any kind of web fora - I would also like to turn off socialhelp since it seems also 'not too active but not dead either' and harmfully diluting the community space, although I think it has been integrated into sugar activities somehow, so sunsetting it needs a bit more care. <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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