Giovanni Bajo wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:36 +0000, John Pinner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 27 January 2011 13:26, Fabio Pliger <fabio.pli...@s3srl.com> wrote: >>> 2011/1/27 Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> >>>> >>>> On 27/01/2011 13:05, Thomas Waldmann wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Could we please decide on ONE mailing list for this topic? >>>>> >>>>> (I don't have ep-improve - is it even necessary to have 2 MLs?) >>>> >>>> Agreed, two copies of each email is tedious. :-) >>> >>> I agree with that too but some folks follow europython@ and other follow >>> europython-improve. That's why i posted on both... >>> I'm +1 on keep discussions on only one list. Wich one? >> >> europython-improve was started specifically for organisers to work on >> - 'improve' - the conference. That is the one we should use. >> >> The plain europython list is for the conference delegates, many of who >> seem to have a very low tolerance to email. Already today, with a >> little flurry on the list, three people have unsubscribed. Many >> unsubscribed last year in the run-up to EP2010, heaven knows how they >> thought they could keep in touch with what was happening! > > I personally don't see much value in a *mailing-list* for delegates. In > PyCon Italy, we have a mailing-list for organizers and a newsletter (= > read-only mailing-list, if you prefer) for delegates/fans/followers, > with a very low and clean traffic. > > By your description above, I propose that we simply turn europython@ > into a newsletter so that non-moderators can't post (and we can then > link it with the "subscribe to newsletter" form in the website).
-1. europython@python.org is for delegates to discuss things and for the organizers to reach out to delegates europython-impr...@python.org is for organizers and people wanting to help with the organization It should be fairly obvious where to post a message, IMHO, and this has worked out well in the past years we've been having an EPC event. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 08 2011) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2011 - Florence June 19-26 http://ep2011.europython.eu/ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
