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Yet Another Mailing List

December 18, 2006 5:18 pm Dave Neary gnome

A while back, I asked the list administrators to create a mailing list for me, which I have been meaning to get populated by chasing down everyone I know who should be on it. Unfortunately, circumstances have conspired against me doing taht the proper way, so now I’m resporting to a blog broadcast and an email to foundation-list 🙂

The mailing list I created was discussed at the marketing BOF in GUADEC: the GNOME User Groups masters list – modelled on the UK’s lugmasters list, this list will regroup representatives of various user groups around the world, to encourage collaboration and planning, sharing of information, organising common actions where useful, sharing experiences and generally making the GNOME Foundation aware of all of the things that are going on around the world.

The list will also be useful in the other direction – often, the foundation is contacted about an event where GNOME should probably be present, and we forward the mail on, but a central place to make sure people are informed what’s going on would be useful – it will also be useful to finally this year have a significant GNOME involvement in Software Freedom Day.

So – if you are involved in a GNOME User Group, and would like to know what others are trying, or co-ordinate an event with your neighbours, sign up – I expect to see at least one person from all the user groups on the wiki by Christmas.

For information, this mailing list will be ruled by my iron hand, and I will insist on people respecting the Code of Conduct.

In unrelated news, I got re-elected to the GNOME Foundation board – thank you to everyone who voted for me, I think we’re going to have a great year. Congratulations also to Quim, Jeff, Glynn, Vincent, Anne and Behdad. Participation this year was slightly up on last year (211 out of 346 = 60% versus 47% last year) – is this a sign that the board is doing better, or a side-effect of the membership renewal problem last month?