[mapguide-internals] Announcing MapGuide Projects

[Trevor Wekel]

Hello PSC,
Hello list,

I just made a post to mapguide-announce regarding the LiveDVD project.  Tom and I thought it was appropriate since there was a "project announcement" in the past

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-announce/2007-March/000011.html

Then Tom did some additional digging and found that the -announce list is only supposed to be used to disseminate release and security patch information.

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-announce/2007-March/000011.html


Bummer deal.  According to the letter of the law, I should not have posted to -announce.  My bad.  On further reflection, I was wondering...

Should we change the letter of the law?

I believe we are missing out on a wonderful promotion opportunity.  I am sure our user base would love to know what is going on with MapGuide, who is using it (big/interesting implementations), and who is investing in it by sponsoring projects.

The -announce list should remain low volume.  I would personally consider one announcement a week "low volume".  That would still give us to opportunity to make dozens of interesting announcements over the course of a year.  The announcements should probably be approved by a PSC member (or two).  How does this sound for an initial crack at -announce appropriate material:

- Sponsorship of significant development work by the community (RFCs, new platform support, etc)
- Unusual and/or publically visible MapGuide Implementations
- New stuff to download for MapGuide (releases, samples, etc)


Regards,
Trevor