Sander's Email below, on board@, created some discussion, and after some thought I am leaning towards a couple of thoughts:
o That this is an ideal job for ComDev o That this is something I'd like to volunteer to take on Think of it as an ASF school newspaper or newsletter... Comments? Thoughts? > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Sander Striker <s.stri...@striker.nl> > Subject: Organizational scaling, Internal communications > Date: September 11, 2019 at 3:20:15 PM EDT > To: Apache Board <bo...@apache.org> > Reply-To: bo...@apache.org > > Hi, > > Over the years the Foundation has grown a lot. From the low tens, we're now > in the high hundreds of Members. With scale, some properties of the > communication channels change, which makes them less effective than they used > to be. > Case in point is the members@ list. It's been a while that everyone on the > list knew each other personally, and when it was ok to share your > insert-life-changing-event-like-having-a-kid-or-getting-merried on the list. > Having a discussion on-list, and getting effectively everyone's opinion is a > lot harder nowadays. Or even knowing that your opinion was already > represented. Even when everyone paces themselves and doesn't post multiple > times a day, there is a large group of people that finds it hard to keep up. > > During hallway conversations at ApacheCon, it was brought up that we don't > really have anyone focussed on internal communication. Given the size we are > at, we could do with someone do neutral summaries with a limited frequency, > so that interested members can keep up and stay involved more reasonably. I > think the Board would be able to benefit from this as well. > > Might be worth exploring. > > Cheers, > > Sander
