Mailing list discussion

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen
<sparks at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> During today's meeting we discussed different options for Board
> mailing lists.  The first idea was to implement a 'Board-Public'
> mailing list that would allow Board members to discuss ideas while
> allowing those communications to be public (both the archive and in
> real-time via regular subscriptions).  This would differ from the
> Advisory-Board list where the public also has the ability to
> communicate with the Board members in public.  There was much
> discussion about this proposal which evolved into the second proposal:
> we keep everything the same.
>
> Neither proposal had enough votes to pass.  There was a common
> argument to both proposals which was that they had both been tried
> before and failed in the past.

So, while both may have failed in the past, without a better idea for
how to accomplish the goal of doing more work in public view I think
we should go ahead and try again. Past failure may have been caused by
many things and the infrastructure used may not be the reason it
failed. With enough resolve on the part of the Board perhaps we can
make it work this time. If not, we can always try something else.

After thinking about the IRC discussion this afternoon I'm inclined to
try using this list first.

> Does anyone have any ideas on these proposals?

I'd be happy to hear other suggestions for ways we could be more open as well.

John