Fwd: Re: Forums

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(12/01/18 1:26), Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> If you want personal contact from W3C, please contact
>> the person that responded to the mail I sent to site-comments with you
>> in the Cc list. That person's email is something ends with "@w3.org".
>> Could you just please find that mail?
>>
>
> My Gmail search returns nothing for the string "site-comments@w3.org" - so
> no, I can't find that mail. I don't recall ever being given an email
> address of someone to talk to about this.

How's the mail at the end? You did reply me. I mentioned fantasai in
that mail I sent you. Did you send her email already?

(12/01/12 3:43), Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> On 11 Jan 2012, at 19:32, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu wrote:
>
>> I am redirecting you to this mailing list which is for feedback to
>> the whole W3C site, as I think some of the W3C staff are watching
>> this list. I myself is tired of seeing this non-technical thread on
>> www-style
>
> Cheers :) Being new here, and there being no clear guide to newcomers
> on the structure of how these groups interact, ettiquette, or what
> belongs where, I just made the thread in www-style. Sorry that this
> seems to have been inappropriate.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Forums
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:12:26 -0600
From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
To: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
CC: Matthew Wilcox <elvendil@gmail.com>, W3C Site Comemnts
<site-comments@w3.org>


On 11 Jan 2012, at 1:54 PM, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu wrote:

> (12/01/12 3:43), Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> My personal feeling is that the participate page[2] can emphasize more
>>> on the mailing lists in the sense that:
>> 
>> Sorry, I don't understand the sentence
> 
> I am saying that if you go to the Participate[2] page, information about
> the mailing lists should be more eye catching than it is right now, and
> the following is a list of concrete suggestions. (This is, after all,
> some site comments :p )
> 
>>> * Discussion Forums should become Mailing Lists as mailing lists are
>>> really much more important than, say, blog posts. News, newsletter,
>>> podcasts and video don't seem to have anything to do with participation
>>> so I am not sure why are those listed there.
>>> * Switch Mailing Lists and Calendar as I think Mailing Lists are more
>>> important.

Hi Kenny,

I'm inclined to leave Calendar where it is, but could see renaming
"Discussion Forums" to "Mailing Lists and Other Discussion"

Ian

>>> 
>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/participate/
> 
> I did't actually find the mailing lists via this link and I think your
> experience (like how you reachch www-style) is likely more useful than mine.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Kenny
> 
> 

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