[HOT] Additional mailing lists for the HOT Working Groups?

[Pierre Béland]

We can simply use the group discussion feature from our hot.openstreetmap service.
 Pierre 

      De : Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org>
 À : Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> 
Cc : "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
 Envoyé le : Mardi 28 octobre 2014 18h09
 Objet : Re: [HOT] Additional mailing lists for the HOT Working Groups?
   
Hi Blake,
Indeed, you are not the only one to think this.Initially I had thought that using the HOT OpenAtrium platform (used for Board discussions) could actually help. It is possible to choose the level of privacy/publicity for each section of that platform.However, one of the remaining issue with OpenAtrium is that: to post or answer a message, authentification would be required and one would not be able to subscribe on her own (AFAIK).  Which means that it would be heavier and less flexible in terms of user management. That aspect is much easier managed by a simple public mailing list.
Therefore, I support your idea. We could at least start testing it within the training working group if a few more people agree on it.Creating another osm mailing list is not going to be really difficult if we can first agree on its denomination and define its purpose.
Most appropriate communication tools might differ from one working group to another but I think that this one could help at least our WG for some time.
Best,
Claire
Claire HalleuxVolunteer and Member of the Board+243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC)
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
http://www.hotosm.org/http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response



On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone else thought additional, fully open, mailing lists for the Working Groups (WG) would be of any benefit.

I would like to communicate with other members of the WGs I participate in in a casual, continuing conversation about subjects we discuss in the meetings but I do not see a good way to do that.

It might also provide a way for people who have an interest in the WG to have interaction with or follow the group even if they cannot attend the meetings.

We could use the main HOT list but that seems to be too broad of an audience and risks making that list more bothersome than it needs to be. I would like to feel free to send emails to my co-group members without worrying it is increasing traffic on the main HOT email list.

Anyone should be able to subscribe to the WG email lists as they are not intended to be private, just subject specific.

If they need moderation for spam, I am glad to moderate them.

Best wishes,
Blake

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