On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:48 PM Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
> Sander's Email below, on board@, created some discussion, > I aim to please :) > 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? > The only thing I would caution is that I expect this to be a significant continuing time commitment. If that was taken into consideration, great. Cheers, Sander > 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 > > >
