Dear Open Organization community, Today we're pleased to re-introduce the openorg-list!
We launched this mailing list in October 2015 [1] as part of our effort to support the quickly-growing community of readers sharing their responses to Jim Whitehurst's book, _The Open Organization_. While that conversation has grown and evolved in tremendously exciting ways during the past ten months, the list has been rather quiet (our fault!). Today we're promising to change that. ### Our Plan ### We want this mailing list to become a valuable resource for anyone thinking about the ways open source principles are changing the nature of work, management, and leadership today. To that end, we'd like this list to serve as an open forum for conversation and sharing great ideas. Also, we'd like to use this list to circulate the following information: * Announcements--community-related news and updates * Opportunities--ideas for articles this community might consider contributing to Opensource.com * Resources--articles, reports, and other materials we think a community of people tracking the proliferation of open organizational principles will find intriguing and useful * Metrics--regular reports on new and popular open organization stories at Opensource.com * Reports--regular recaps of community activities, especially the work of our Open Organization Ambassadors ### Our Vision ### But all that doesn't quite capture our vision for this list. First and foremost, we want it to be a place this community can turn for conversation and camaraderie--even a little support--as they explore the impact of open source values on their organizations. We hope you'll consider the list a primary point of contact when you're looking for like-minded thinkers and writers curious about these issues. The list is for all of us. List membership is open to anyone who'd like to join, but only verified members can post to it. Please encourage your friends, colleagues, and allies interested in open organizational thinking to join us here [2]. ### Looking Ahead ### Without a doubt, since last October this community has grown and expanded in generative ways. We've welcomed many new voices, both in the Open Organization sub-section on Opensource.com and on Twitter (especially during our regular #OpenOrgChat sessions). In the past few days, we've invited many of our most frequent interlocutors to join openorg-list, and many have agreed (hi!). We'll continue extending invitations in the days ahead. In the meantime, we'll gradually begin making openorg-list our primary avenue for reporting channel news and sharing interesting things with our community. Regular reports have already begun appearing here. We're looking forward to the next chapter in the life of this list. Our thanks, as always, to our wonderful community for demonstrating what it can eventually become. Please know that your feedback is always welcome here. We hope you'll help us make this list a resource valuable to everyone. Feel free to introduce yourself at any time. Sincerely, Jason Hibbets & Bryan Behrenshausen ### Notes ### [1] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/private/openorg-list/ [2] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list _______________________________________________ Openorg-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list
