Thread Subject: Re: Communications Task Force Conference Call

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Mon, Oct 16 2006 9:47 AM

On 10/13/06, Bailey Bruce < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Please compare these two:
> http://teitac.org/wiki/Announcement_8.13.2006 ** Changed this to http://teitac.org/wiki/Announcement_10.13.2006 **
> http://teitac.org/mailarchives/mail_message.php?id=207&listid=1
>
> I think the first seems a lot more inviting to a non-committee member.
>
> But how about fixing the date (August) and then making read-only?

Um, yeah... you mean October is the 10th month??? It's been fixed -
now at http://teitac.org/wiki/Announcement_10.13.2006 - and is now
read-only.

> Is this the approach we should take with all the other advice we came up
> with (as a result of the conference call) but which we decided not to
> send to committee members at this time?

I think the most outstanding item was regarding the two-day notice for
consensus items and determining cochairs. At a minimum, conveners
should be apprised of this.

> I am still torn how to "push" general announcements to non-committee
> members. How do we ensure they see Tim's message? Where and how do I
> announce that the 508 Update Index page has been updated? Do we ask
> subcommittee chairs to post a link to Tim's message in their lists? Do
> I post something to all eight subcommittees?

I'm not sure either. I do not like the idea of posting to all
subcommittee lists - some would get the same message 8 times! But how
much information will there be that should be pushed to both committee
members AND the public? Not much, I would guess. I think posting it
prevalently on the sites (like I have done with Tim's message on the
wiki) is probably sufficient.

If we feel the obligation to push announcements to the public, we could:
1. Create an announcements mailing list (but we'd still have to post
to the committee list and the announcements list, and it's ANOTHER
list).
2. Open up the existing committee mailing list to anyone and make it moderated.
3. I could (I think) aggregate all of the addresses from all of the
lists and use that to send *occasional* blast messages to everyone
that is on at least one list.

Jared

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