On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Narendra Sisodiya narendra@narendrasisodiya.com wrote:
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but I strongly recommend for a single mailing list for BOTPG (Bharat Open Technology Promoters Group) so that dedicated people who want to promote FOSS/OpenStandards can work collaboratively.
I thought the fosscomm mailing list was for this purpose.
Fosscomm didn't worked out well. I want a mailing list do DOERS (those who do something for foss rather then sitting and doing mailing list work).. So a dedicated network for FOSS promoters.. Or you can say.. a mailing list for all FOSS advertiser and promoters.. This dedicated mailing list can produce WhitePaper on status of FOSS and recommendation as well as give a report on what need to be done.. "What need to be done" -- this is a most important aspect... We all are singing.. (like in bazzar.. everybody try to sell his veg ).. so I think, FOSS promotion should have a strategy in it.. ..
I basically recommend TASK - based mailing list... If purpose of two mailing list overlap 100% then they must merge otherwise collaboration is ok.
Who is going to decide that? Who is going to do the M&A integration of the multiple lists?
See, we have TUG India for latex and kile related help, there is a good vibrant Drupal community in India which can take care for their mailing list.. We have dedicated python mailing list too.. There exist a dedicated mailing list for Contribution too - http://groups.google.com/group/oscontrib