[Foss4g2009] Re: Workshop / Tutorial Submissions

[Jeff McKenna]

Mark Leslie wrote:
>>> - the "contact" link on the /workshops/ page of OCS should point to 
>>> the workshop committee email (conference-workshops at lists.osgeo.org)
>>
>> Shouldn't this be an individual and not a list that bounces non 
>> members?  If a list then they might rather be sent to the subscription 
>> page for that list.
> 
> It has been brought to my attention that we should be using this list 
> for topics like voting and discussing which workshops / tutorials to 
> accept and organising volunteers prior to the conference.
> 
> It looks like the list hasn't been in use since September so I'm going 
> to steal in now for my own nefarious purposes.  I'd like anybody that is 
> interested in volunteering to help out with the workshops before and 
> during the conference AND who would like to put their 0.02AUD in to the 
> selection process to sign up to the list and announce your intentions. 
> Then I'll have a better idea who I have to work with.
> 
> Note: this thread is migrating to the open list.
> 
> -- 

No, that is not the purpose of the [conference-workshops] public list. 
It already contains many of the past workshop presenters subscribed to 
it, and it is used to communicate with the presenters.  For private 
voting discussions we will need a new private mailing list, such as 
[conference-workshops-private]. In the past the LOC has set up that 
private mailing list and not OSGeo (because the members of that list 
will change each year).  Make sense??

For example, a great use of the existing [conference-workshops] list 
would be to send the extension reminder out on it.

-jeff