Hi Daniel, *, Daniel Armando Rodriguez wrote on 17/07/2020 15:11: > As stated at the meeting, the number of subscribers to the mailing lists > is significantly low. The user list, for example, has about 1500 > subscribers, the Spanish and Brazilian lists have about 350 people each. > TDF has today 221 members and this list only 160 people. Therefore, > beyond the fact that the subscription is voluntary, it cannot be said > that many people are encouraged to participate in the discussions.
It is indeed right that mailing lists are not for _all_ - any more. /me those were good times ;) > It has to do with a social issue, as someone said, but also with the > language barrier and the ability to argue an idea. And I'm pretty sure > that providing a platform where people can vote on comments/ideas will > allow TDF to attract much more participation, even from those who don't > speak English as fluently... as I do. Of course it is not needed to get votes in the first place, but allowing people to provide input, without the need to set up an email address for that, is indeed important. > To make it clear, this is not an attempt to solve several problems at > once, I don't expect to present a final solution, if there is one. But I heard a likewise comment in the BoD meeting indeed, and could not well understand it myself. Maybe the idea was to express that the problem is a complex one, and not only solved by different tooling. Maybe the tooling even is less important than an attitude that encourages participation. I remember quite some moments from the past, that on a mailing lists, in a discussion, or at the start of it, it was recognized that we should try to use more public lists for the kind of topics.. Sometimes that worked. But to often, with the load of work, difficulty to manage, moderate (more widely) discussions etc. we fell in old habits.. ;) > as a foundation with a global reach we need to make people willing to > participate. If such behavior modification is achieved through technical > change, then we welcome it. Indeed. Technical means can help. If a mailing list was available for all, one could say that it would be sufficient to announce on all channels that discussion.topic is ongoing there to encourage people to join - if they so wish. And of course that applies to any preferred tool: make sure that people in other channels get a ping to make them aware. > What I propose is to give the platform a chance without leaving any > other tools aside, for a certain period of time, and then evaluate the > performance. I did not look into details of https://democraciaos.org/en/ But I have a high trust in open source and tooling developed to support democracy. So, with only the condition that it allows to have (some) interaction with mail (and I guess it has), I'm much in favor to give it a try! Maybe with a few projects, topics to start with - not do a complete remake of our work immediately - it yields good experience. And imagine it makes it even easier to improve our attitudes at the same time :) So yes. Thanks! Cor -- Cor Nouws, member Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 mobile : +31 (0)6 25 20 7001 skype : cornouws blog : cor4office-nl.blogspot.com jabber : [email protected] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
