[OSGeo-Board] Re: OSGeo-Board Local Chapters, Translation, etc

[Gary Lang]

Frank, 

I too can't follow discussions on a Wiki as well as a mailing list.
People need to be able to easily search for old messages and follow
threads. Mailing lists and indexed archives for them are a proven
approach.

I really think it's bad for the foundation to have a diffuse
communication strategy like this. Our communications need to be targeted
and easy to find. Moving some to a Wiki not at our domain and some to
mailing lists is a bad move in terms of promoting our visibility. Put
more technically: we want the Google site: qualifier to be really useful
to people. 

Arnulf: you need a better email client :-) I can help with that.

Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Frank
Warmerdam (External)
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:34 AM
To: board at board.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Re: OSGeo-Board Local Chapters, Translation,
etc

Arnulf Christl (CCGIS) wrote:
> Doing this is cool, but why not in the Wiki? I am really swamped with 
> emails already and I don't need yet another one. The ColabNet 
> infrastructure will spawn email lists like hell anyway. In most of our

> work groups we have managed to reduce use of emails to manage 
> catastrophies. Everything else is done way better in the Wiki. Please 
> just have a look at this simple diagram again:
> http://www.socialtext.com/images/email-vs-socialtext-20050320.gif
 >
> It helps. Really!

Arnulf,

It is certainly my hope that the "international-discuss" group will
formulate plans and ideas in the wiki.  That is part of the reason I
setup the page their for it with a few ideas.

  http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/International_Outreach

and the "Like Minded Regional Organizations" wiki topic was setup a few
days ago.

However, I still have not got the hang of "discussing" things in the
wiki.

>> If you guys are supportive, I'll write up a motion in the wiki based 
>> on the above, and similar to web masters group.
> 
> Cool, do that. And wrap it in square brackets and make each one a link

> to a separate page. No need for initializing mailing lists. If they 
> are neede we can still set them up.

I'm afraid I may have jumped the gun based on a few other +1s.  The
mailing list has been setup.  But this does not preclude using the wiki
for the evolving thoughts of the group.  I am also now not yet certain I
want to make it an official committee until some discussion has started.

Best regards,
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