[NCUC E-team] Announcement lists

[William Drake]

On Jan 23, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO> wrote:
> 
> The idea is that some members inevitably find the volume
> of more or less any discussion list so overwhelming they are likely
> to unsubscribe or ignore them, but would be happy to remain
> on and read a very low volume announcement list.

I guess I'd rather they stayed on a single mandatory list with bits of discussion (which shouldn't be high volume if people use the SG list for policy as has been proposed) than view the discussion list as optional and just get announcements.  If on the other hand a lot of discussion switches to the NCUC list then yes people who don't want mail wouldn't like that.  Whether such people would treat mail from an announce list any differently in the first place, who knows...
> 
> Election calls, major meeting announcements and other such stuff 
> that every member really, *really* should be aware of, sent by
> EC chair or a secretary or someone EC nominates for the task.

Personally I'd like these on a list people can reply to.  I suppose we could try to remember to send each such to two lists...

> Perhaps also monthly summaries of EC activity, if someone would take
> the time to write such,

I would like there to be a monthly activity report with team leaders each providing at least a paragraph of so.  

Ideally such a thing would also cover main policy developments in the month, could be just a list with pointers to relevant Council pages and NCUC/NCSG Confluence pages.  This too I'd think should be crowd sourced by those closest to the developments.

> or occasionally (very rarely) notices that
> something important is being discussed on the general list to entice
> them to take a look there.
> 
> Volume should be to the tune of one message per month,
> certainly not more than one per week.
> (I've got some such lists that get only 3-4 messages per year
> and work quite well.)

So we'll have to sit around deciding each time

Whatever.  As I said, if everyone else thinks this would be value adding, fine.  I hope it doesn't have opposite effects from what is intended.

Bill