[native-lang] Re: [website-dev] getting all mailing lists into mailing lists list

To: dev@website
Cc: dev@NLP

We've been discussing mailing-lists on dev@native-lang., the fact  
that there are so many of them, and people can't or don't find them  
to communicate with each other.

I still think a central mailing-list page, reached from the front  
page, is a good idea. It doesn't have to list all mailing lists. It  
can list the main lists for each section (we can have a Misc section  
for lists their members don't think fit anywhere), with a tooltip for  
each list to explain its function and save webpage-space. At the end  
of each short group of mailing lists for each major project or  
category, would be a "More lists..." link. This would take you to a  
separate page listing _all_ mailing lists for that main project or  
category, and/or listing the separate mailing-lists pages involved.

I envisage something like a Site Map, possibly with an easily- 
recognizable icon for each main project/category. Each main part has  
several child items, then the "More lists..." link.

It would give the user an overview of the OOo lists, which currently  
we don't have. It constructs a viable hierarchy of information.

I also propose each main project/category choose one list to be their  
root information target, and labelled as such on these pages (small  
icon, different colour), identifying it as the list for that group to  
which you should send new information.

It's very difficult for someone outside your project to know how you  
handle your information flow. Designating a root information-target  
list shows people where to send that first email saying:

"We're looking at/starting X. These are our aims. These people are  
involved. Please see our main wiki page/webpage. [link] We invite you  
to contribute by..."

I would like to work on this. What do you think?

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN