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

Thu May 31 12:33:49 EDT 2012

By my count, that's 5-1 in support of the mailing list policy I proposed.
 However, Dan made some good points that I'd like to address. So what I've
done is mock up a modified Contribute page and Mailing List page showing
how I think they might work better together and incorporate some of the
issues I was going for while addressing some of Dan's concerns.

Specifically, I'd like to be able to include a policy based on the
community values we came up with at the last conference. So, I put that
values statement at the top of the Contribute page.

Also, on the Contribute page, I included a statement about transparency and
privacy after introducing the "mailing lists" and "IRC" channels since
these are both public and logged and our policy is not to change the
archives except under very limited circumstances.

The other changes I made to the Contribute page was to add a reference to
the wiki.  It wasn't there before.

Also, for the other communication methods (event calendar, official blog,
community blogs) and the wiki, I'd like to provide a link to someone who
can help someone contribute to each. Who to contact if they have something
to add to the blog?  Who to contact if they want a wiki account?  Who to
contact if they'd like to add something to the calendar?  Who to contact if
they have a blog to add to the community blog aggregator?  In most cases,
there is no contact person or way to actually contribute directly.  In some
cases, it is very difficult to do so (e.g. the event calendar) so it would
be nice to just have one person who was willing to add a single item to the
event calendar sometimes.

My overall goal is to try to clarify who is managing each section and keep
that transparent to everyone.  So if we can add the points of contact, I
think we'd go a long way in that regard.

A mock up (with some questions inserted) of the two new proposed pages are
attached.

With your +1 on the general presentation of these two pages I will take
them to the Web Team and work on finalizing them and getting them posted.

Lori

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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Elfstrand, Stephen F <
stephen.elfstrand at mnsu.edu> wrote:

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> *From:* eg-oversight-board-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org [mailto:
> eg-oversight-board-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] *On Behalf Of *Lori
> Bowen Ayre
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 29, 2012 7:27 PM
> *To:* Galen Charlton
> *Cc:* Oversight Board
> *Subject:* Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Oversight Board Discussion List -
> Decision Needed****
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> 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.  ****
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> Lori
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> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>
> wrote:****
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> 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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> Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
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> Availability:  http://tungle.me/lori.ayre
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> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>
> wrote:
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> > 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
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