[SAC] [OSGeo] #1793: Reqiest for FOSS4G-announce list

[Guido Stein]

Jeff & SAC members,

I respectfully disagree with Jeff.

Since the beginning of the heightened traffic on the list in early sept, we
have lost 7 subscribers and are now down to 94 participants on the list.We
lost 7% of our list so far. Some of the people who have dropped off are
local people we know and have been trying to recruit to participate in the
event.

We, the LOC, have been pointing people to the FOSS4G2017 list to get
information about our conference. Since this list is becoming more of a
forum and less announcnment oriented we feel it's time to open another list
where people can get information from the LOC (similar to how there is an
osgeo twitter account and a FOSS4G twitter account). I am all for an active
community discussion list, but not at the expense of loosing people who are
interested in event information, but not the conversation or other OSGEO
announcements.

I am happy to make sure our outbound messages go to as many channels as
needed to that all OSGEO folks are aware of this, but we need our own
channel with our, the LOC, message is broadcast.

Thank you all for your time,

Guido Stein
Co-Chair
FOSS4G Boston 2017



On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:34 AM OSGeo <trac_osgeo at osgeo.org> wrote:

> #1793: Reqiest for FOSS4G-announce list
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>  Reporter:  gsteinmon      |       Owner:  sac@…
>      Type:  defect         |      Status:  new
>  Priority:  critical       |   Milestone:
> Component:  Systems Admin  |  Resolution:
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>
> Comment (by jmckenna):
>
>  I'm not sure the benefit of yet another announce list.   A 'foss4g-
>  announce' list is actually the OSGeo-discuss list.   Have you considered
>  sending all of your FOSS4G 2017 press releases directly to the OSGeo-
>  Discuss list?
>
>  For example, a typical workflow is:
>
>   - use the public foss4g2017 mailing list for discussions
>   - draft your press releases on the OSGeo wiki (see the many great
>  examples of past press releases for FOSS4G 2009 at
>  https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Releases)
>   - once you have the text and wiki ready, then send your press release to
>  'news_item (at) osgeo (dot) org' (that step is described at
>  http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html).  That news item will
>  be magically posted to osgeo-announce/discuss (an no need of a separate
>  announce list)
>
>  Does that make sense?
>
>  I'll also describe this to the foss4g2017 discussion list.  As i said, it
>  would be great to have more open discussions with the 2017 marketing
>  committee.
>
>  -jeff
>  President Emeritus, OSGeo
>
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