On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010 23:30:01 Christoph Noack wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks for all your replies concerning the "next step mailing list". > Since this is a short summary, I do reply to my initial mail ... > > SUMMARY > > So here is a short summary with focus on the mailing list: > * Using tags within the subjects (like [Design]) might be an > interim solution, but might break down soon, since posting > discipline varies > * People ask to not go too granular concerning mailing lists. Two > of them should suit our needs and keep the so required > collaboration. > * One of the mailing list should target Marketing stuff (the > current one), the other mailing one focus on overall Design > aspects (the new one). > * Further evaluation of communication channels should be done > (IRC, voice calls, phone conferences, Google Wave, > OpenConferencing, forums, ...) > > Another thought from my side: I know some people who are currently a bit > hesitant to join. They do prefer a bit more streamlined communication > that is "pre-filtered" by a topic based mailing list. > > I also would like to keep some consistency concerning the names of our > groups. For example, the mailing list "[email protected]" is used > by "LibreOffice Website Team". > > This leads to the following proposal I've made up by adding some more > additional discussions and the experience we gathered in the past. > > > PROPOSAL > > Set up a new mailing list called "[email protected]" for the so > called "LibreOffice Design Team". > > The current "LibreOffice Marketing Team" mailing list > "[email protected]" might be used for discussions on: > * marketing strategy (requirements, target groups, ...) > * marketing material (flyers, presentations, ...) > * promotional stuff (press releases) > * event organization (conferences, trade fairs, ...) > * ... > > The "LibreOffice Design Team" using the new mailing list > "[email protected]" will care about two main topics: > * Visual Design and Artwork (artwork, branding, graphical aspects > of UI design ... for the software and the websites) > * User Experience Design (interaction design, usability, > ergonomics, user research, ... for the software and the > websites) > > > Finally, I hope you support this proposal to make our work more > efficient and to - of course - add some more fun! :-)
Definite +1 from me Cheers GL > > I'll forward this proposal to the Steering Committee, who should decide > on that. Again, thanks for all your input! > > Cheers, > Christoph > > Am Freitag, den 12.11.2010, 00:39 +0100 schrieb Christoph Noack: > > Hi all, > > > > in the today's marketing conference call (Agenda at [1]), some people > > mentioned that the number of mails and the diversity of topics is a bit > > too much for a single mailing list like marketing. > > > > So my (unofficial) question is, whether you think that another > > communication channel (mailing list, in the first step) might help. > > What do you think? > > > > Personally, I think that the combination of topics like "artwork", > > "usability", "branding", "visual design", ... would make sense. On the > > one hand, it prevents coming up with far too many lists", on the other > > hand, it might engage collaboration of those, who hadn't the chance to > > work together (in the past). > > > > An additional rationale is that there are already some other people > > ready to join - a separate mailing list would make it more easy for them > > to follow the topics. > > > > Cheers, > > Christoph > > > > PS: "Unofficial question" (see above) means, that I am interested in > > what you think about that. Once we are clear what to do, we might ask > > the SC to set this up ... but not if we consider this unhelpful. > > > > [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
