Posted by fathershawn on May 2, 2011 at 10:10pm
As an outcome of discussion on our Drupal Camp mailing list (https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/drupalcampnyc) a separate group on g.d.o has been initiated (http://groups.drupal.org/nyc-unconference-organizing) for organizing unconference events in NYC.
I'd like to initiate a community-wide discussion about the wisdom of this approach. Although it has the advantage of moving discussion off a mailing list I find I'm vaguely disquieted by a sense of schism. Is there a way that we can keep these discussions all here in this g.d.o group? Is that "too much activity" for non-organizing group members in the group?
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I'm reaching out to infrastructure
Thanks for this, for starters.
I'm going to reach out to infrastructure in the next few days to see about the feasibility of unique email permissions for a specific kind of post. I think if it weren't for the 'blasting the list for all posts' aspect, this would be feasible as a tab here on the nyc page.
Until we solve that, I'm fine with a new group - for strictly logistical reasons.
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Agreement...
Just to register my agreement for moving off the email list format for camp/unconference organizing. I think it has become very inefficient and that has created an unnecessary barrier to participation.
Regarding the idea of a separate group (or even website) purely for organizing activities, I've come to the point where I don't have a problem with that either. There are enough "relatively" neutral options out there for hosting offered that I think we can set this up with minimal chance of the kind of hijacking that I know some in the community are concerned about. The benefits outweigh the risks at this point in time. Three years ago I don't think they did.
If our goals for the group are to have more Drupal events for more people of various kinds, using technology to make organizing such events easier/better will also get more people involved.