[OSGeo-Conf] email lists for foss4g

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi all,
I'd like to recommend that consolidate the email lists used for foss4g 
and conference organising.

In particular, I think there should only be one foss4g public email 
list, not foss4g2009, foss4g2010, foss4g2011, ...
My reasoning is that the new foss4g event will benefit greatly by 
inheriting the members of the previous email list, and I'll expect to 
see greater cross pollination between years.

Looking at the foss4g2011 email list archive [1], I see that there are 
hardly any emails sent to it yet, so I don't think there would be any 
loss by migrating foss4g2011 over to foss4g at this point.

It might also be worth combining the conference email list and foss4g 
list for similar reasons.

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g2011/

On 15/01/11 12:58, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 11-01-14 08:39 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
>> I wonder what conf dev is for (88 subscribers)? Jeff, can you help here?
>
> Folks,
>
> conf-dev is the mailing list for the OSGeo Conference Committee.  This
> is the committee, chaired by Jeff, that is responsible for selecting
> the annual conference venue, setting broad year-to-year requirements
> and policies.  It is also an excellent place to mine for volunteers
> that don't need to be local, and suggestions/feedback/input from those
> with experience running various aspects of FOSS4G conferences in the
> past.
>
> But the OSGeo Conference Committee does not *operate* FOSS4G itself.
> This is done by the local organizing committee.
>
>> Let us use this FOSS4G 2011 list for most everything:
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2011
>
> Yes, that seems appropriate.
>
> As Arnulf suggests, I'm liable to get grumpy when I find that OSGeo
> related planing and decisions are needlessly done in private forums.
>
> Best regards,


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