On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:53 AM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> > wrote: > >> That's the thing (sorry for top posting, Android inbox bug) most of us >> are used to the tools in free software. Mailing lists are not common at >> all to the vast majority of users. >> >> I used twitter because the contact is passive and some thing for them to >> follow for news, not necessarily to ask questions. >> >> If we want to do two way communication then we should monitor a hashtag >> like #gnomenewcommers or something like that. >> > I think email is the lowest barrier to entry. Again, I'm using personal experience here, and when I do, I prefer to consume information, not have conversations with people. I think email is something universal and think that redirecting it to the engagement list is a good way to start. It would be great to collect stats on interest levels and better understand how we can engage newcomers. It'll be a great way to measure impact of events we participate in, and in general, engagement team efforts. How can we best coordinate the effort of responding? I think this will partly be a learn-as-you-go thing, because part of our process will depend on the amount of newcomers we receive. I also think we can prepare ourselves by having a spreadsheet somewhere, or some way of tracking all inquiries so that we 1) know who is taking care of each newcomer, 2) measure how much a response we are getting and if it's linked to any particular event, 3) understand which areas newcomers are interested in joining, and in general learn more about how they hope to contribute. > >> > To re-iterate my point, I'm saying that for a lot of people, mailing lists > is anachronistic. People communicate quite a bit differently these days. > The i...@gnome.org could simply be re-directed to engagement list and > maybe we could rotate the responsibility to respond to queries on it? > > sri > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 12:58 PM Nuritzi Sanchez < >> nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: >> >>> >>>> >>>> Likewise, if we had i...@gnome.org it would need to be actively >>>> monitored. We already have gnome-press-cont...@gnome.org, which is >>>> similar, and we haven't always done a great job of keeping on top of >>>> it. >>> >>> >>> I really think that having an email address is a good idea. I want to >>> talk about onboarding more in the future, but I personally found that >>> having the default intro to GNOME be mailing lists and IRC channels is >>> intimidating. >>> >>> >>> >>> ............................................................ >>> ................. >>> >>> *Nuritzi Sanchez* | +1.650.218.7388 | Endless <http://endlessm.com/> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> engagement-list mailing list >>> engagement-list@gnome.org >>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list >>> >> -- ............................................................ ................. *Nuritzi Sanchez* | +1.650.218.7388 | Endless <http://endlessm.com/>
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