Hey Eric,
Can you tell me how many people are on the list? I'm curious for the
results of the gender survey. I'm hoping that we got a decent sample size.
Rosalyn
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
As the Code4Lib LISTSERV manager, I am able to make a number of antidotal
mailing list observations from the past few weeks:
* The volume of mailing list traffic always surges just before the
annual meeting, but the conversation this time around was much broader than
in previous years. This time around it was much more about community, codes
of behavior, and discussions of values. Not all points of view were
expressed, but what was expressed seemed to naturally be the consensus of
the group. What is especially interesting to me is that there is very
little formal governance in our community, and yet things move along just
fine. This seems anomalous compared to other groups in which I belong,
especially in Library Land.
* The number of subscribers has increased. Sure, there were a few people
who unsubscribed, but for every one unsubscriber I believe there were three
or four subscribers. Most of them were female.
* Many lurkers came out of the woodwork over the past few week. Very
nice. Very interesting. Very encouraging.
* Finally, I might make a judgement here, but in my experience, mailing
lists that surround communities as opposed to technologies seem to thrive
and have a longer lasting, more evolving life. Compare Code4Lib with
NGC4Lib, XML4Lib, and Perl4Lib.
'Just some rambling, antidotal observations.
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ELM
University of Notre Dame
