[Board] Proposal to remove contact form

[Jeff McKenna]

The mailing list it needs to go to is Discuss, and then the community 
can help that person.  I am not sure how we can make that happen 
technically though.

-jeff



On 2015-02-13 2:50 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> I absolutely +1 with you not having the to respond to these emails. I'm
> unsure if removing the contact form is what we want. Perhaps we create a
> mailing list that the contact form submits to? Then it can be responded to
> by anyone?
>
> But its not something that is the president's (or any one person's) job.
>
> Mike
>
> Michael Smith
>
> OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
> treasurer at osgeo.org
>
>
>
>
> On 2/13/15, 1:44 PM, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Board,
>>
>> I'm not sure if everyone realizes this, but we/OSGeo get daily emails
>> through the contact form at http://www.osgeo.org/contact (which are sent
>> to info@)
>>
>> 99% of these are technical questions or those not willing to join a
>> mailing list to get the answer they need, which means someone (99.99999%
>> of the time me) must respond and point to a mailing list.
>>
>> I would like to remove this contact form, and replace it will links to
>> appropriate mailing lists/contacts.
>>
>> Would anyone object to this, or, does anyone have better ideas in how to
>> handle this? (by the way, we've tried before to add more people to info@
>> emails, but in the end it is always me who replies, so this option is a
>> no-go/fail)
>>
>> Thanks all,
>>
>> -jeff
>>