Re: ebXML list of participants

[christopher ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

Karl,

It would seem to me that there's markerting spin that can be
derived from the fact that there are over 2000 subscribers to the various
project team lists. It my not be necessary to track exactly who they
are to allow some marketing whiz to make use of this information
to emphasize the momentum that is being gained daily.

Cheers,

Chris
Karl Best wrote:
> 
> OASIS IT staff has been maintaining the ebXML list of participants
> (http://www.ebxml.org/participants/participants.htm) by hand, and adding new
> names every few weeks. This isn't really a list of people who participate,
> but rather a list of people who subscribe to any the ebXML lists, whether
> they particpate or not. (Given the numbers, it's actually a list of lurkers:
> there's ~2000 people on the list, but probably only a couple hundred of
> those really participate.)
> 
> My question is whether we should make the effort to continue to keep this
> list current. Over 900 people have subscribed to the mail lists in the past
> five weeks! Do we want those 900 people added (by hand) to the participants
> list? I think anyone who is truly participating has been doing so for quite
> some time, so the people subscribing now are just lurking.
> 
> So, we can either 1) continue to manually add new people to the list as they
> subscribe, 2) stop adding people and just leave it where it's at today, or
> 3) actually come up with a list of participants (defined as what?) and
> publish that list on the web page.
> 
> Feedback, please.
> 
> </karl>
> ============================================================
> Karl F. Best
> OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
> 978.667.5115 x206
> karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org

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