And I'm willing to publish but not that keen on admin. - Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 14:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ooo blog (was: RE: ooo-dev list subscriber stats?) On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2011 6:06 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: ooo-dev list subscriber stats? >> >> +1: >> >> "- introduce an AOOo blog so that the Community can follow our progress." > > Ok, so nobody has approached Infra yet, I'll be proactive and create it, then > we > need a list of people who will be admins and those that will be publishers. > > Let's start with the name of blog, unlike other things, the blog name should > be > permanent and reflect the name that the project will have upon graduation > to a TLP. (Migrating/renaming blogs is a royal pita so we don't do it.) > > Apache openoffice.org should be the name of the Blog ? Apache OpenOffice.org Capitalization is important in the branding. We have been abbreviating ourselves as AOOo. I'm willing to admin, but I don't necessarily want to be a publisher. Regards, Dave > > Gav... > > > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 09:44 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: ooo-dev list subscriber stats? >> >> Hi Manfred, >> >>> did you check all the other (not US/UK) user ML as well? >> >> No, I did it mostly out of curiosity. Although I speak multiple computer >> languages, my human language skills are English with a little high school >> German over 30 years ago. >> >> If others know .... >> >>> IMHO we need a statement for all the current subscribers on the actual >>> user MLs. You can hardly regain customers you lost. >> >> Agreed. Someone should write an announcement for use to disseminate. >> >> An announcement should probably include: >> >> - introduce AOOo (incubating) >> - a promise that all bugs, user forums, and mailing lists will be migrated >> carefully and people can continue as now. >> - a call for developers (code and documentation) to join us on ooo-dev w/ a >> mention and link to the Apache Way. >> >> - introduce an AOOo blog so that the Community can follow our progress. >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >>> >>> ## Manfred - (android) mobil - please excuse typos Am 08.07.2011 15:53 >>> schrieb "Dave Fisher" <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> On Jul 8, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there a way for list moderators to get a tally of list subscribers? >>>>> Or is this an admin permission? >>>> >>>> On another thread and list I saw this: >>>> >>>> "Email ooo-dev-help@ from your moderator address for more >> information." >>>> >>>>> I'm interesting in knowing how many people are currently subscribed, >>>>> especially a sense of the ratio of "lurkers" to active participants, >>>>> contributors to users, etc. This could be one indication of whether >>>>> we are ready for a ooo-user list now. >>>> >>>> I have been lurking on [email protected] - there have been >>> approximately 130 emails since June 24. Not a very high volume I >>> haven't seen anything regarding Apache OOo. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dave > >
