[maemo-community] Request: council at maemo.org

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Nov 22, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Graham Cobb wrote:

> On Saturday 22 November 2008 18:03:43 Tim wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if we could get a council email address @maemo.org  
>> that
>> forwards all email to whomever the current council members are.
>
> I realise that there are things which the council need to discuss  
> amongst
> themselves but those should be the exception rather than the rule.

Yes, this is and always has been our default SoP since the beginning  
(it was actually one of the first things we decided).[1] :)

> As a member of the community, I have a slight concern that if there is
> a "council" mailing list there will be a tendency for council  
> members to send
> notes to the "council" address which actually could (and hence,  
> should) have
> been sent to maemo-community.  It will be easy for a council member to
> feel "no one outside the council is interested in this, send it to the
> council address", whereas the test should be "this message needs to  
> be kept
> confidential for now".

The point is to make it easier for people who might need to email the  
council (Nokia, community members with specific issues, outside  
parties for whatever reason) to do so without having to seek out the  
specific email addresses (much like most websites have a webmaster  
address). This is not a mailing list.

> I would be extremely disappointed to read, at some future date,  
> "this decision
> was discussed on the council list" about some decision affecting the
> community.

As would I, as open communication is one of the council's core values.

> So, I would urge the council to consider carefully before setting up  
> such a
> list.  If it is set up, I would like it to be archived so that  
> future council
> members can see previous discussions.


Again, this isn't a mailing list, it's simply an easy way to  
communicate with the council directly when needed.


[1]http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council#Open_Communication

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair