On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> The list has been created: [email protected] >>> >>> You can subscribe by sending an email to: >>> [email protected] >>> >>> Posts from apache.org email addresses will be moderated. All other >>> posts will be automatically rejected. >>> >>> We should promote this to the user lists and forums, as well as to >>> users via social media. A blog post? >> >> As a comment on the current Foundation post? >> > > I meant a blog post on the availability of the announce list. (Surely > if we had the announce list already we would have had a post on the > start of the blog) > > Somehow we need to make people aware of the new list. The intended > audience would be users who find the existing mailing lists too > high-volume, It is good to have orthogonal ways of reaching out. If > we just reach out to the existing lists we're missing the very users > we're trying to reach.
The current blog post is about AOO - https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/open_letter_to_the_open A comment there would be seen. My only point. Regards, Dave > > -Rob > >>> >>> But it probably doesn't make sense to promote this until after the holidays. >> >> Maybe promotion is a good question for ooo-marketing? >> >> Regards, >> Dave
