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
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