Would it make sense to have a general "Conferences" mailing list to discuss all-things conference related, rather than create several lists?
--Matt On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Matt Disney <[email protected]> wrote: > A few comments: > > I'm glad to have feedback about this since people have questions or > comments about it. > > One thing I want to make very clear: there's nothing here that is intended > to be a wedge with USENIX. I think we're actually in good shape on > improving our (LOPSA) relationship with USENIX and I want that to continue! > I say that as a LOPSA Board member, as a member of the organizing committee > of the USENIX LISA '11 conference, but also on a personal level. So, > seriously, this is not intended as an affront to USENIX. > > The main point of the email list is to try and create a venue where people > that don't live on IRC or Twitter can communicate with other folks at LISA > and feel comfortable doing so to a specific audience. Some people think > the separate list is a terrible idea and that the amount of traffic on it > doesn't merit a separate list. That could end up being true. But because > we're going to try to promote its use, I thought it would be best to make > it an opt-in thing. One issue at question here is whether it is better to > have more eyes seeing the content in this case or to preserve the opt-in > approach. My call was that opt-in was more important and that the more > targeted audience actually provides value in terms of what people might > post to the list (e.g. "Beers. Hotel bar. Now."). > > The plan actually *is* to have e.g. a new list for PICC attendees to > communicate with each other. However, we'll see how the LISA list works > out. If it's a stinker, we'll forget about the separate email list idea for > future events and will look for other ways to try and improve communication > among sysadmin event attendees. > > I think Adam's suggesting of consolidating our mailing lists is a good one > and we should look into it, maybe do a little web poll to see how folks > feel about it. > > I'm certainly not opposed to changing the setup of the email list or IRC > channel and so forth. As they are, though, I don't really see them as being > critically flawed so I'm inclined to stay the course for now and see how > well they work at LISA next week. They're opt-in, so if you want to use > them, that's great and I hope they provide something useful for you. If > they don't get much traffic or end up being bad in some other way, then > we'll take the experience and input from this event and carry it forward to > the next sysadmin event where we think we can add value in trying to > connect sysadmins with each other. > > We will indeed be tweeting and I assume the IRC discussions at LISA will > be lively as well. Anyone have more suggestions or recommendations for how > LOPSA can improve communication among attendees at LISA or other events? > > Matt > > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Graham Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I hear the kids are using this thing called Twitter... >> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Tom Limoncelli <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I agree that a lisa-specific mailing list is ill advised. Would we >> > create a mailing list for PICC? for the next big newsworthy event? >> > >> > If this is really flooding people's email boxes, set up a filter on >> > the word "lisa" in the subject. That will get 99% of the posts. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
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