[Board] Naming of several mailing lists

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Whomever:

Pls feel free to everywhere shorten
The-Visibility-and-Promotion-Committee to just VisCom or maybe better
Mkting.

-mpg

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Markus Neteler
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 11:14 AM
> To: OSGeo-Board; Tyler Mitchell
> Subject: [Board] Naming of several mailing lists
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> looking at
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
> I see a couple of inconsistencies and strange names
> for the new lists. Maybe already too late, but maybe
> better now than never:
> 
> The following lists have an obscure "Mail_" prefix:
>   Mail_africa  	[no description available]
>   Mail_announce 	OSGeo Announcements
>   Mail_commits 	[no description available]
>   Mail_discuss 	OSGeo Foundation Discuss List
>   Mail_francophone 	[no description available]
>   Mail_mse-users 	[no description available]
>   Mail_webmap-discuss 	[no description available]
> 
> while there are the more reasonable:
>   Africa  	Africa local chapter discussions
>   Brasil_commits 	[no description available]
>   Brasil_cvs 	[no description available]
>   Brasil_issues 	[no description available]
> 
> - What's the difference between "Mail_africa" and "Africa"?
> - "Mail_announce" could simply be "announce"
> - "Mail_discuss" could simply be "discuss"
> - "Mail_francophone" could simply be "francophone"
> and so forth.
> 
> The veeery long names are also a bit unfortunate:
>   Visibilitycommittee_announce  	[no description available]
>   Visibilitycommittee_dev 	Visibility Committee Discussion List
>   Visibilitycommittee_discuss-de 	Deutschsprachiges OSGeo 
> Marketing
>   Webcommittee_announce 	[no description available]
>   Webcommittee_commits 	[no description available]
>   Webcommittee_dev 	Discussion and development of OSGeo's 
> web presence
>   Webcommittee_issues 	[no description available]
> 
> -> Webcom_ and Viscom_? But above "Mail_" prefixes are worse.
> 
> Finally: Simplyfy this one:
>   Www_international-discuss 	Discussion on how to improve
> international networking
> to "intl-discuss" as before?
> 
> And:
> Www_news-item
> and
> News_commits
> should probably be made more similar?
> 
> Sorry for bothering,
> Markus
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