Re: [COMMUNICATION] New Mailing List / Structure Proposal for the SC (Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?)

On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010 23:30:01 Christoph Noack wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> thanks for all your replies concerning the "next step mailing list".
> Since this is a short summary, I do reply to my initial mail ...
>
> SUMMARY
>
> So here is a short summary with focus on the mailing list:
>       * Using tags within the subjects (like [Design]) might be an
>         interim solution, but might break down soon, since posting
>         discipline varies
>       * People ask to not go too granular concerning mailing lists. Two
>         of them should suit our needs and keep the so required
>         collaboration.
>       * One of the mailing list should target Marketing stuff (the
>         current one), the other mailing one focus on overall Design
>         aspects (the new one).
>       * Further evaluation of communication channels should be done
>         (IRC, voice calls, phone conferences, Google Wave,
>         OpenConferencing, forums, ...)
>
> Another thought from my side: I know some people who are currently a bit
> hesitant to join. They do prefer a bit more streamlined communication
> that is "pre-filtered" by a topic based mailing list.
>
> I also would like to keep some consistency concerning the names of our
> groups. For example, the mailing list "website@libreoffice.org" is used
> by "LibreOffice Website Team".
>
> This leads to the following proposal I've made up by adding some more
> additional discussions and the experience we gathered in the past.
>
>
> PROPOSAL
>
> Set up a new mailing list called "design@libreoffice.org" for the so
> called "LibreOffice Design Team".
>
> The current "LibreOffice Marketing Team" mailing list
> "marketing@libreoffice.org" might be used for discussions on:
>       * marketing strategy (requirements, target groups, ...)
>       * marketing material (flyers, presentations, ...)
>       * promotional stuff (press releases)
>       * event organization (conferences, trade fairs, ...)
>       * ...
>
> The "LibreOffice Design Team" using the new mailing list
> "design@libreoffice.org" will care about two main topics:
>       * Visual Design and Artwork (artwork, branding, graphical aspects
>         of UI design ... for the software and the websites)
>       * User Experience Design (interaction design, usability,
>         ergonomics, user research, ... for the software and the
>         websites)
>
>
> Finally, I hope you support this proposal to make our work more
> efficient and to - of course - add some more fun! :-)

Definite +1 from me

Cheers 
GL


> I'll forward this proposal to the Steering Committee, who should decide
> on that. Again, thanks for all your input!
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> Am Freitag, den 12.11.2010, 00:39 +0100 schrieb Christoph Noack:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > in the today's marketing conference call (Agenda at [1]), some people
> > mentioned that the number of mails and the diversity of topics is a bit
> > too much for a single mailing list like marketing.
> >
> > So my (unofficial) question is, whether you think that another
> > communication channel (mailing list, in the first step) might help.
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Personally, I think that the combination of topics like "artwork",
> > "usability", "branding", "visual design", ... would make sense. On the
> > one hand, it prevents coming up with far too many lists", on the other
> > hand, it might engage collaboration of those, who hadn't the chance to
> > work together (in the past).
> >
> > An additional rationale is that there are already some other people
> > ready to join - a separate mailing list would make it more easy for them
> > to follow the topics.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christoph
> >
> > PS: "Unofficial question" (see above) means, that I am interested in
> > what you think about that. Once we are clear what to do, we might ask
> > the SC to set this up ... but not if we consider this unhelpful.
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda

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