[Board] Proposal to remove contact form

[Jachym Cepicky]

+1 for keeping info at osgeo alias, +1 for removing the contact form and
adding information, which would forward readers to propper mailing list

yes, I'm getting all those info@ mails as well, just keeping an eye on
those, regarding contribution agreements and yes - having 3 people behind
the alias is reallly no good idea, to deal with all those technical
questions

J

Fri Feb 13 2015 at 20:40:03 odesílatel Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
napsal:

> Folks,
>
> The info at osgeo.org is an alias, and we can add additional people.
>
> For what it's worth, I object to Jeff's claim to answer 99% of these.  I'm
> on the alias an respond to substantially more than 1%.  Also Jachym gets
> most signed contribution agreements through that alias.
>
> I think it is important to keep the info@ alias working as an email
> contact point.  Of course it would be nice to have material pointing to
> more appropriate contact points on the contact form (or other places we
> list this email address).
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
> OSGeo Emeritus
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Michael Smith <
> michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> 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
>> >
>> >
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