[Noisebridge-discuss] RFC/HOWTO: organize an event on noisebridge-discuss

[Andy Isaacson]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009, ten people wrote:
> sign me up!

Hi folks,

As you may be aware, noisebridge-discuss has 290 subscribers and about a
half-dozen awesome event announcements per week.

To reduce list overload, please keep the following in mind.

ORGANIZERS:

When announcing an event, consider making a wiki page to coordinate
(rides, times, attendees, etc).  Anyone can create a wiki account, and
anyone with a wiki account can "watch" a page to get mail when the page
is updated, or you can add a RSS feed to your reader (click "History" in
the top toolbar, then in the left-side "Toolbox" click "RSS" or "Atom").

Alternatively, it's good etiquette to say "respond off-list and I'll
coordinate attendees".  If you're feeling especially helpful, set the
Reply-To header to point to yourself rather than to the list.  (And
follow through!  Send a group CC later that day or the next day to
foster communication amongst the attendees!)

If the event is large, requires much coordination, has a lot of
leadtime, or will reoccur, consider creating an event-specific Mailman
mailing list.  Simply email ops@ with the following:
 - the list name (alphanumeric plus hyphen, reasonably descriptive)
 - a one-sentence justification
 - a statement that you're willing to be the list owner


ATTENDEES:

If you're replying with a one-liner "me too!", please take a moment to
ensure you're not sending to all nearly three hundred list subscribers.


Of course, if you're contributing additional information to the
disussion, that's completely different!  Even just stating that you're
offering rides to a non-BARTable event is valuable.  And obviously if
there's discussion to be had (which day to choose, etc) then -discuss is
a reasonable forum.  For those of us who aren't going -- well, we all
have functioning "delete" keys...


Comments welcome (on or off list).

Thanks,
-andy