[Cross-posting to activities for reasons that I hope are obvious after
reading...]
On 2006-03-13, Lindsay Holmwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Slug wiki was established, building upon the activities list by
> giving people quick access to information about what's in the works for
> Slug. This has allowed the Slug community to become more involved with
> the organisation of Slug through consolidating the process of posting
> ideas about special events and interest groups, and volunteering talks
> for Slug meetings.
Some thoughts on this.
First, a bit about me. I was on the SLUG committee 2002-2003. I am not
subscribed to slug or to slug-chat and haven't been for years now (I do
an incomplete skim of the archive for interesting subject lines about
once a month, that's why you still see me occasionally post via
gmane.org). I am not particularly interested in the general discussion
on slug or slug-chat, hence my not being subscribed. I AM interested in
volunteering to help with SLUG events sometimes, hence I'm on
activities.
Therefore, some notes from the perspective of someone on activities
only:
1. I did know the wiki existed.
2. I had no idea until very recently that the wiki was used in this
fashion and have never checked it. As best I can tell, activities
was never informed of this function of the wiki.
3. A number of event discussions, most particularly Software Freedom
Day discussion, are moved *off* activities to slug-chat "where
everyone is".
4. You did not, it seems, consider your report worth posting on
activities.
I am probably a relatively special case, in that most people interested
enough to help out are also interested enough to be on all the lists and
therefore tend to be in the loop a bit more. But nevertheless it would
be great if the committee and other interested parties could think about
having a single well-advertised forum where interested volunteers can
hang out, be it activities or somewhere else and take care to alert that
group to anything of interest. It would also be nice if there was an
active ongoing promotion of that forum so that people don't feel that
the place to reach all our keen newer community members interested in
volunteering is *slug-chat*, the "anything goes" list!
-Mary
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