We are a volunteer-driven project, and volunteer-driven projects live or die by their community. Thankfully, there’s a lot of interest in this project and we are frequently contacted by people who want to get involved.<\/p>\n
At the moment, our main method of communication is e-mail via mailing list<\/a>. This works for the current volunteers, but I’m worried it isn’t attractive or welcoming for newcomers.<\/p>\n It’s high-volume mailing list, and managing high volume\u00a0 lists is a bit of a lost art. I’ve just taken a look at my “cs-history” mail folder, which goes back to 2015. I have 2,577 messages, totalling 462M of storage. So whenever I recommend to people that they subscribe to the mailing list, I also strongly suggest setting up mail filters to keep the list out of people’s inboxes.<\/p>\n So I’m wondering: should we be doing something else? Are you interested in taking part, but put off by the mailing list? Should we tweak its settings: perhaps open up the archives so non-subscribers can read them? Do you have a suggestion for something else we should try? Please either email (heh) me suggestions<\/a> or leave a comment on this blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are a volunteer-driven project, and volunteer-driven projects live or die by their community. Thankfully, there’s a lot of interest in this project and we are frequently contacted by people who want to get involved. At the moment, our main … Continue reading