A few comments on this question, the term "new communication channel" can be confusing:
1. The initial problem is an update of the Ubuntu-be website, pages Events team (http://ubuntu-be.org/nl/node/25 , ... en/node/26, ...fr/node/27). Activities: these pages are outdated likely since september 2008 or before. About contacts related to events, 2 email addresses are mentioned (bart#ubuntu.com - Wesley#ubuntu.com), with no idea if these are correct. Additionally it is a private communication channel. 2. The bug #364128 Update page Event Team (EN, NL, FR) has been reported on 2009-04-20, with text-proposals in en, nl and fr. 3. During the IRC meeting on 08/04/2009, it was decided to activate the event-team (already mentioned in the website) to help organizing and coordinating events and activities. This Ubuntu-be sub-team was proposed by mongolito404 and created by Jan on 12/04/2009. This is as a public moderated team with actually 6 active members and open for new members. 4. In the bug report #364128, I proposed to replace the 2 email addresses by a link to this Events Team (see point 5). Ubuntu-nl is using a special email address "[email protected]". People willing to contact Ubuntu-be about organizing events should first contact the Events Team to receive a coordinated answer. First contact is easier with small team of motivated members. Once contact established, information will be pass in IRC meeting and to the mailing list. Pointing directly to the mailing list has several disadvantages: people does not know who they are writing to, everybody and nobody is directly concerned and it introduces the risk of multiple non coordinated answers. 5. The only problem (for me) is how to create an email address with mail forwarded to all members of the Events Team or how to open an Events Team mailing list? 6. In fact, the question we are here working with is very limited to people or clubs requesting help of Ubuntu-be to organize an event/activity, no more. The update of the Events Team pages is more urgent. This topic can be added to the next IRC meeting. jean7491 Jan Claeys a écrit : > Op vrijdag 05-06-2009 om 23:53 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Mark Van > den Borre: > >> Keep it simple. When this list starts overflowing with activity, >> _then_ we can think of splitting off some of the volume. >> > > Exactly what I was thinking. > > There is a good reason why most open source projects prefer public > communication (like mailing lists & IRC) over private communication: it > spreads a message such that everybody who has the time & the skills to > help can do so. > > Everybody can mail this list, they don't even need to be subscribed > (although it makes things much easier of course, and the amount of mail > one gets from this list is very small). > > > Pointing to the mailing list in all relevant places might be useful > though. > -------- Message original -------- Sujet: [Ubuntu-be] A new communication channel must be created Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:27:33 +0200 De: Alain Baudrez <[email protected]> Répondre à :: Ubuntu Belgium <[email protected]> Pour :: Ubuntu Belgium <[email protected]> L.S. One of the recurrent topics in the weekly IRC meetings is the organization of events. Up to now the events have been Dipro and/or Computer fair based. If a dedicated Ubuntu user wants to create a demo or another event in his town or school or ... he/she cannot contact the events team directly. Our website lacks a Event Team contact page and email address. I propose to create a workgroup consisting of one Point of Contact per province. Communication can be done as follows: One global "events request/support" email address. All members of the Events Team must receive the event request/support email and automatically take action. That person then becomes the sole point of contact for the person requesting or support. or Create an event request/support form on a webpage with an option list consisting of all the provinces. Based on the selected province, the representativate of that province receives the mail as well as the the coordinator. Once the rest of the Events Team has been informed and the request is withheld, the information can be delivered to the other members of the Belgian Loco Team using this maillist or an IRC meeting. A new webpage should also be created explaining the what/where/how of requesting our support in creating an event Your comments are welcome and who will lead the way in this project? Alain aka Wamukota -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
