- From: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan.garbee@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 18:10:28 -0400
- To: "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CANQy2y2RKtcd6KbEr8j2y1FfZD+ZhTxMOK3ipFUVaAXu48gMvA@mail.gmail.com>
I'm not a fan of having yet-another piece of software installed for people to need to go to and have an account for. I believe we are already complicated enough when it comes to accounts and software, plus it is Ruby on Rails based which I don't think most here are familiar with, which adds more things to the mix. However, I do agree with the idea of intermediaries. It really doesn't end up like a game of telephone, someone simply voices their issue to someone in a group of people and they can be pretty sure that it will be looked into. I can see now from one of the recent tweets there are some people who asked valid questions in response, but never got a response from @webplatform. Having some "relations" people who you could target with that (and who would also have access to the @webplatform Twitter account and other social platforms) could be very useful in aiding contributions. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Janet Swisher <jswisher@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 6/6/13 4:14 PM, Nic da Costa wrote: > > Hey Everyone > > I have been chatting with some folks over in IRC about general public > involvement and how we can look at improving this aspect and one of the > ideas that came up was to setup a sort of "Dev Rel" team. The aim of the > team would be to be the main interface with the public, sort of a buffer or > intermediate for those people who do not wish to take part in the mailing > list but have ideas to bounce around. The aim of this would be to try and > improve our channel of communication with the general public, to get more > involvement, even if it is for some base ideas. The team could then report > on people's behalf and carry on any discussions that need to take place. > > They could also act as an entry point and help any new comers on how to > get started, even if it means pointing them in the right direction or > telling them who would be best to speak to. > > > I like the idea of having "welcomers" who help people get started and > connect them to appropriate other people. I don't like the idea of such > people becoming intermediaries who end up having extended games of > "telephone" between the list and others. That doesn't seem like it would be > good for anyone involved. > > It sounds like the mailing list is a barrier to entry. Casual > participation is discouraged by having to subscribe to the mailing list > (and implicitly, receive all of the list traffic in your inbox) in order to > post something. Maybe we should move towards a communication channel that > is easier to drop into, like a web-based discussion forum (for example, > Discourse, http://www.discourse.org/). > > We previously had a Q&A forum, but that was geared toward support rather > than discussion. (BTW, the forum link on this page: > http://talk.webplatform.org/ no longer works.) I thought we were keeping > it around, but hidden, but maybe I misunderstood. In any case, it would not > really be suitable as a replacement for the mailing list. > > > -- > Janet Swisher <jREMOVEswisher@mozilla.com> > Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org> > Developer Engagement Community Organizer >
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