On 9 November 2011 07:26, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > >> As a mentor, I have two comments: >> >> - When requesting a new mailing list, it is critical to clearly define the >> focus and expected community that would use a list. In particular, showing >> specific threads on other lists that would be better moved to the new list >> is helpful to give others a detailed explanation of the kinds of things a >> new list proposer would expect to see on the new list. >> >> Creating new email lists is simple technically, but should be approached >> with caution in terms of the effects of splitting community energy. >> >> - I highly recommend that people view through the slides for the >> well-respected "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People" set of >> slides: >> >> https://sites.google.com/site/io/how-open-source-projects-survive-poisonous-people >> >> The talk is worth watching, but for those short on time the slides are worth >> reading. In particular, the aspects about how communities of many different >> kinds of people (the vast majority who are not poisonous, by the way!) can >> effectively work together on public mailing lists. A key slide is pp 5, and >> pp7 as a followup: >> >> "Attention and Focus >> These are your scarcest resources >> You must protect them" > > The hour spent watching this will be worth hours in reclaimed time and > productivity!
+1000 This video really ought to be required watching for all subscribers to any open source mailing list. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
