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

[Gary Lang]

Unfortunately, I use Nelson Email Organizer which uses outlook as an engine (Ind my day in NEO, not Outlook.

But at home I use Mail.app on Macs. That has a similar feature to NEO, which is 'search folders'. I bucket incoming messages and, depending on what role I'm working I'm working on - VP	Engr, Osgeo Board, Dad, Music aficianado - I focus on that bucket.

Does Thunderbird have this feature?

Gary

--- Original Message ---
From: "Arnulf Christl (CCGIS)" <arnulf.christl at ccgis.de>
Sent: Thu 2/16/06 4:10 am
To: "board at board.osgeo.org" <board at board.osgeo.org>
Cc: 
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Board] Re: OSGeo-Board Local Chapters, Translation, etc


> 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.

Thanx,
please do so, I am open to any suggestions. I mean it, I am very unhappy
that my emails bug me that bad. I have 50k current and add 500 a day. Need
to get at it from the most strange network ends which practically reduces
it  to https.

> 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,
> --
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------+------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
> wa
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