[wplug] Where is the dates for potential wplug meetings?

[John Lewis]

What kinds of people  were unsubscribing? Where they bots? Were they
recruiters? Were they paying members?

If they are not people who have any interests in FOSS or our affairs
then do we really want them around our lists in the first place?

In some cases splitting list makes sense, but in this case I am not
quite sure this split would be a good one if we are trying to raise
participation.

In my opinion, to raise participation, business has to be done in the open.

On 12/03/2014 06:53 PM, Pat Barron wrote:
> Not everyone is subscribed to the wplug-plan list, but that is by
> design.  That is an open list (anyone who wants to can subscribe to it),
> so those who are interested in this type of event planning can subscribe
> freely.  Those who aren't, don't have to.
> 
> The general mailing list is, well, sort of "general", so just about
> anything could potentially be at least somewhat on topic - but is
> primarily intended for (mainly FOSS-related) technical topics, such as
> your iCalendar query from yesterday, and group announcements. The goal
> isn't necessarily to have more activity on the general list - the goal
> is more like getting content to people who have an interest in that
> content.  I can tell you, anecdotally, that whenever we have the
> occasional small flurry of non-technical discussions on the general
> list, we soon thereafter get at least one or two "unsubscribe" requests,
> so we know that not everyone on the general list is interested in
> discussions of non-technical topics - which is one reason why there is a
> separate list....
> 
> Admittedly, we don't use the wplug-plan list as often as we should, so
> sometimes people forget it's there - that's something we should try to fix.
> 
> --Pat.
> 
> 
> On 12/3/2014 5:28 AM, John Lewis wrote:
>> On 12/02/2014 05:58 PM, Justin Smith wrote:
>>> Just that there are WPLUG members like me who would be interested in
>>> getting to know what Hack Pittsburgh has to offer. I plan to get more
>>> into electronics in the near future.
>>>
>>> Oh, and as a brief aside...we should probably be using the
>>> wplug-plan[1] mailing list to discuss topics related to event planning.
>>>
>> We could use that, but is everyone subscribed to that. I think
>> participation will go up if we do as much business we can in the open.
>> It will also make the main list have more activity.
>>
>> I personally can't see the down sides.
>>
>> In addition, "topics related to event planning" is pretty vague. I just
>> posted a question about iCalander. Does that go here or there. I don't
>> see a reason to use iCalander other than for event planning but it was a
>> technical question and for another group I am involved with, then again
>> we could probably use it too.
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