On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 15:19 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Package: lists.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > > May be it is allowed already, then please taken this bug report as a > wishlist to get a new mailing list > > Name: dug-nyc ( after debian users group of New York City ) > > Rationale: > Main goal is to make it easy finding people alike (ie debian users) > within local neighborhood, which would help in raising public awareness > about Debian. There has been various mailing lists hosted by other list > servers, but it would be much better if they all are provided by > debian.org, as the origin. > > As for NYC debian users group there has been already debian-nyc-soc > hosted by yukidoke but I didn't find it originally since it is not > announced anywhere within Debian. Replacement list has been created > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but again it might vanish if vireo.org stops > hosting it > > Short description: Debian users group of New York City > > Long description: discussions, annoucements, DUG meeting schedules > > Category: other, but I would guess if you accept generic proposal of > having debian users group mailing lists served by lists.debian.org, > there might be a new category such as 'Debian users groups' > > Subscription Policy: open > > Post Policy: open > > Web Archive: yes
This is something I wanted to bring to discussion since a long time ago, but I simple kept forgetting about. I'm glad Yaroslav finally did it. Making a Debian NYC mailing list would also represent allowing other kinds of regional related mailing lists. For instance, I'd like to have a mailing list for Mexican users, and I bet lots of other people would love to have their mailing lists under lists.debian.org for their countries, states or cities. As a listmaster myself I'm in favour of creating such category and I'd be willing to make it happen under new categories and new documentation about it, but I'd like to read other listmasters' and users' opinion. Pros, IMHO, would be that we'd try to bring all dispersed Debian users on differents regions of the world together by hosting their discussion on one place and by that, we'd encourage more people to join the project both by using the distribution or by welcoming new prospective developers. Cons, IMO, is that we'd be officializing Debian user groups, so that could create friction between some other UGs in the same area, and that such lists would have to be forced to be for Debian matters on those regions, not for user support (that is already covered by the debian-user mailing lists, in all kinds of languages). -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/ http://www.cervezatecate.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
