Discourse/2008 proposal
This is a page to work on ideas for a new system for the internal e-mail lists used by the Foundation, the Chapters, and their volunteers.
Tags
editThese are areas of interest/work for the individual.
Types of tag
editOrganisation
edit- Foundation
- Chapter
Type of participant
edit- Board
- Staff
- Volunteer
Area of work
edit- Clerical
- Executive
- Events
- Financial (sub-split to "Grants", "Donations"?)
- Legal
- Reactive (need for this subsplit?)
- Proactive (need for this subsplit?)
- Press
- Reactive (need for this subsplit?)
- Proactive (need for this subsplit?)
- Technical
Geographical
edit- Worldwide
- Europe
- France, Italy, Germany, UK, ...
- Africa
- Americas (or split to "North America", "South America"?)
- Canada, Mexico, United States, Chile, Belieze, Jamaica, ...
- Asia
- China, Japan, Taipei, Hong Kong, ...
- Oceania
- Australia, New Zealand (merge with Asia?)
Examples of tag
editLists are defined by a set of tags; everyone with all of the tags will get such messages.
This means Foundation goes to everyone in the Foundation; Foundation/Staff goes to all of the Foundation's staff; Foundation/Staff/Europe goes to all of the Foundation's staff in Europe (right now, Mark and Delphine ;-)).
- Current equivalents
- Foundation/Board (board-l)
- Foundation/Staff (staff)
- Press (wmfcc-l)
- Global (internal-l)
- Foundation/Technical (private-l)
- Without current equivalents
- Chapter/Europe/Financial (Treasurers of European Chapters)
- Press/Americas (Press-people in the Americas)
- Technical/Foundation/Board (Technical members of the Foundation Board - maybe a technology sub-Committee of the Foundation Board?)
Other stuff to think about
edit- Corporate e-mail addresses for all (perhaps not @wikimedia.org) - perhaps just for communicating with outside world and do through something like OTRS rather than giving everyone addresses? maybe @volunteer.wikimedia.org @staff.wikimedia.org and @board.wikimedia.org ?
- Require use of corporate e-mail addresses for all/some lists
- How do people get the different tags?
- Should this system be e-mail based - so wouldn't some kind of web "frontend" make more sense? (see my previous post on internal-l)