I can create whatever lists you guys need... it's no bother. --Russell
On Monday 23 April 2007, Dieter wrote: > > > > Is it time to create an ogml-advocacy list that intended for rather > > > > noisier discussions? > > A list called advocacy should be about just that, advocacy. Aka public > relations, evangelism, marketing. > > I think we need to go *up* a level, and have an open hardware mailing > list. This would be a place to discuss SMP/NUMA, DSP, SATA, Ethernet, > Hypertransport, audio, DRM, etc. If a specific topic gets sufficient > sustained traffic, or if a group wants to escape the chatter of the > general group, a focused mailing list can be split off. > > The open-graphics list could then concentrate on graphics. > > But even within graphics we have > > OGD (FPGA board) > > OGA arch (e.g. CPU instruction set and assembler) > > TRV10 ASIC > > OGC (TRV10 ASIC board) > > external Ethernet graphics/video/X11 box > > general graphics questions and discussion > > So perhaps > > open-hardware > open-graphics (general) > open-graphics-ogd > open-graphics-oga > open-graphics-trv10 > open-graphics-ogc > open-graphics-oge > > If that is too many lists, perhaps > > open-hardware > open-graphics (general) > open-graphics-ogd > open-graphics-ogc (including oga and trv10) > open-graphics-oge > > I suspect that some of you are thinking that this is still too many lists. > More work for the maintainer to create all those new lists, more work to > subscribe to all those new lists, etc. But Usenet has taught us that > having fine control over topics is very useful. Someone may be interested > in the FPGA board but not at all interested in the ASIC, or visa-versa. > Same for an expansion card vs. an external box. A developer might be > interested in all of them, but wants to concentrate on the topic they > are working on and automagically file the rest in a folder to be read > later. _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
