[ug-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Coordination of user group activities

[Martin Man]

Hi all,

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Martin Man wrote:
>> The -private list should be definitely subscribers-only-can-post and 
>> invisible from the listing, since it serves the purpose of background 
>> coordination activities before they can be published (mostly 
>> administration tasks that just generate lot of noise). New 
>> subscribtions should probably be controllable by the moderator, that's 
>> why I said invite-only...
> 
> Why don't you have a list like ug-czosug-committee, with public 
> archives, that has moderated postings for non-members? Having a 
> '-private' list, with private archives seems a little 'closed' for my 
> liking.

I agree with you (and there were also other voices) trying to persuade 
me that these should be open.

I have actually nothing against being open, and I'm also always 
promoting it, but there are things that better remain closed until the 
peers confirm that they can be open.

When we are for example trying to invite spekers or book a room for 
presentations, we all (who are coordinating the event) need to be CCed 
and informed what's going on, but the other party of the discussion 
might not necessarily agree to take the discussion to ug-czosug at osol 
just because we never know what they think at all. From my point of 
view, emailing them and CCing the public list might even seem a bit 
offensive and presure-generating on them, which is not at all what we 
want to do... perception matters....

> Just my 2 cent..
> Glynn

thanx,
Martin