[Eg-oversight-board] Oversight Board Discussion List - Decision Needed

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Can I get a response to my draft mailing list policy...below.  +1 or -1 at
least even if you don't have time to elaborate (on the reasons for your
your -1.

Lori

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Lori Bowen Ayre //
Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group
Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
(707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre at galecia.com
Availability:  http://tungle.me/lori.ayre

<Lori.Ayre at galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID,
filtering,
workflow optimization, and materials handling
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>wrote:

> Thanks for those links Galen.  I'll toss out a draft mailing list
> policy to get us going....
>
> Mailing List Policy
>
> Mailing lists are crucial to the operation of the Evergreen Community.
> The General Mailing List serves as the primary communication for all
> members of the community and provides a venue for users to help each
> other use the software. In addition, Evergreen users and developers
> use mailing lists to coordinate development and the Oversight Board
> uses a mailing list to manage issues of governance. Mailing lists also
> serve as a primary channel for working groups to conduct Evergreen
> business (e.g. Documentation Interest Group, Web Team, Catalogers,
> etc).
>
> The Evergreen community values openness, transparency, and
> collaboration and seeks to provide an environment that respects and
> encourages all contributions. As such, none of the Evergreen mailing
> lists are private.  Anyone can subscribe to any of the lists available
> at http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php.
>
> Mailing list participants are expected to respect the stated purpose
> of each list and conduct themselves in a mutually respectful manner at
> all times.
>
> The lists are also archived archived and publicly searchable.  Our
> policy is that the archives are not modified except under rare
> situations where confidential information has been inadvertently
> shared on a list. Please send a request promptly to
> feedback at evergreen-ils.org if you believe you are the exception.
> However, be advised that deleting information in the archives will not
> make it go away because mailing lists have been mirrored, have feeds
> and are in the Google cache and other search engine indexes.
>
>
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> Lori Bowen Ayre //
> Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group
> Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
> (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre at galecia.com
> Availability:  http://tungle.me/lori.ayre
>
> Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering,
> workflow optimization, and materials handling
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> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On May 16, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Galen Charlton wrote:
> > > A couple policies that come to mind are Apache's [1] and Debian's [2].
>  The Apache policy is nicely minimal since it just appeals to general
> netiquette, but the Debian policy strikes me as a good template that's a
> little more explicit about expectations for mailing list participants.
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html
> > > [2] http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
> >
> > Though I'll hasten to point out that the Debian mailing list code of
> conduct, being largely driven by common preferences of open source
> developers regarding the formatting of email, has some items like a ban on
> HTML email that aren't necessary for our purposes.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Galen
> > --
> > Galen Charlton
> > Director of Support and Implementation
> > Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
> > email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
> > direct: +1 770-709-5581
> > cell:   +1 404-984-4366
> > skype:  gmcharlt
> > web:    http://www.esilibrary.com/
> > Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
> http://evergreen-ils.org
> >
>
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