[Foss4g2009] RE: Handling mass email in conjunction with Tour Hosts

[Janelle Driscoll]

One suggestion was to have a Foss4g2009POC list which Tour Hosts are on;
we can then discuss items relating to Tour Hosts on this list. The only
problem with this is it is creating another list.

What do others think?

Janelle  

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 8:04 AM
To: foss4g2009; Janelle Driscoll
Subject: Handling mass email in conjunction with Tour Hosts

Dave has raised some valid concerns about my proposals for how Tour 
Hosts should engage with the Organising Committee over email, which I'm 
sure he will contribute to here.

Our challenge is that we want Tour Hosts to dedicate their fixed amount 
of time to the tasks that they do best, conference organising.

We generate a lot of email, and Tour Hosts are new to working with such 
a lot of traffic (I understand they were reading the same text over and 
over as the thread continued).
How do we make sure Tour Hosts become efficient at reading emails so 
they can have time to work on the important stuff?

Dave has hinted (correctly) that most of the important traffic we 
generate should be on the public list rather than private list, and 
hence Tour Hosts should be monitoring this list.

Dave, feel free to comment further. In particular I'd like to hear your 
suggestions for how Tour Hosts can become efficient at reading their
email.

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