apologies for the second follow up. two things: 1) it's not really even about bifuricating "the community". it's about the fact that there are two groups of people here: the people who want to get D&I work done, and the people who want to learn about D&I work (or challenge that work)
2) perhaps diversity-learn@ is a better name On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 20:32, Naomi Slater <n...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > erm, "this isn't an appropriate list for this thread, ..." > > On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 20:31, Naomi Slater <n...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > >> I don't think that a [FAQ] tag solves the problem we're trying to address >> here. which, as far as I understand it, is that this list is likely to see >> a lot of threads that may ultimately hamper the work we're trying >> to accomplish >> >> in a sense, we *want* to bifurcate the community. i.e., we want to be >> able to say "this isn't an appropriate thread for this list, please take it >> to diversity-meta@" and be quite firm about shunting that stuff off >> >> we need to prioritize maintaining an (emotionally) safe and stress-free >> environment on this list (diversity@). and I can't over-emphasize how >> much we put that at risk if we allow meta discussion to take place here >> >> >> >> On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 19:50, Ross Gardler >> <ross.gard...@microsoft.com.invalid> wrote: >> >>> +1 to not another list, use subject tag "[FAQ]" >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> >>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 10:30 AM >>> To: diversity@apache.org >>> Subject: Re: FAQ and education mailing list >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 5:19 PM Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: >>> > ...I don't want my FAQ-collection effort to get in the way of getting >>> > things done on diversity@. For that reason, I suggest creation of a >>> > mailing list diversity_education@a.o... >>> >>> I disagree with Yet Another List as it tends to fragment a community, >>> and this one is not too large. >>> >>> We can use [FAQ] in email subject lines to differentiate while keeping >>> others aware of what's going on. >>> >>> There are more words about this in Stefano Mazzocchi's "we love busy >>> lists" message that I relayed at >>> >>> https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrep.codeconsult.ch%2F2011%2F12%2F06%2Fstefanos-mazzocchis-busy-list-pattern%2F&data=01%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7C8e638b48142c4064e6ed08d6d7c8b3b8%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1&sdata=hVX9mykVdeGGGfwkyXWIevEbZlFH9Of9F414I6buS38%3D&reserved=0 >>> >>> -Bertrand >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org >>> >>>
