Re: [Ag Meinungsfindungstool] [MG] List organization (was International E-Democracy Talk)

[Ed Pastore <epastore AT metagovernment.org>]

Yes, I admin this list, but as we're all about collaboration, I don't want to 
dictate the answer. What works for others?

My suggestion of an Announce list was to hopefully avoid the scenario Nicolas 
brought up: over-cross-posting. If there is an announce list that does not 
allow discussion, it would only produce one message per week (or however 
often meetings are), and thus may be allowed to cross-post into other lists. 
Discussion of the topics and logistics of meetings could be covered on the 
existing metagov list for now, unless it becomes overly distracting from the 
topical discussions.


P.S. Although I am proposing a cross-posting list, I can see how it would not 
be welcome on dev lists. Dev lists should be limited to development, and are 
usually complimented by another more general discussion list, where these 
announcements may be more welcome. So, Nicolas, while we shouldn't cross-post 
to adhocracy-dev, would info AT liqd.net be an appropriate alternative?



On Oct 26, 2012, at 3:44 AM, marc wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> Could we create such new mailinglist for discussion on this topics on 
> metagovernment.org or should we use the 'normal' start AT metagovernment.org 
> list for our discussion to avoid cross postings in the future?
> 
> Cheers
> marc
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Nicolas Dietrich
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:28 PM
> To: adhocracy-dev AT lists.liqd.net
> Cc: Ed Pastore ; marc ; Metagovernment Project ; team AT makeyourlaws.org ; 
> Piraten ; Meinungsfindungstool ; info AT liqd.net ; 
> info AT interaktive-demokratie.org ; Bürgerbeteiligung ; Piraten AG Liquid 
> Democracy
> Subject: List organization (was International E-Democracy Talk)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> On 10/23/2012 05:02 AM, Ed Pastore wrote:
>> So the first administrative note is that this message is addressed to
>> eight different list servers. Plus I can think of several more that
>> could be invited, at least some of the time. (I suppose it depends on
>> the topic.) So, would it make the most sense to start a new metagov
>> list that acts as an announce list to these other lists? Would the
>> admins of these various lists allow that announce list to
>> cross-post?
> 
> Jumping in here, as I'm a list admin of adhocracy-dev. I'm not in favor
> of such cross-postings, as adhocracy-dev is dedicated to the development
> of the Adhocracy tool, and not about general discussion on
> e-participation tools. I will thus reject further cross-postings in this
> list.
> 
> Nevertheless, there's certainly overlapping interest between
> adhocracy-dev subscribers and the current evolving discussion group.
> 
> I'd therefore suggest that you'll simply create a new discussion list
> and write an announcement mail *once* to the other lists / addresses and
> let users decide if they want to join in. I would :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicolas
> 
> 
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