I would love to see this happen. -- Daniel Ruggeri
On September 17, 2019 6:48:12 AM CDT, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: >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
