1114740 - Creating category for Mozilla Balkans Community in Discourse

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Reps Graveyard :: Community IT Requests, task)

Description

[Konstantina Papadea [:couci]]

Name:
Konstantina Papadea [:couci]

Mozillians.org Profile:
https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/couci/

Reps Profile:
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/couci/ 

Community Name:
Mozilla Balkans


:: Discourse Category

Category Names:
Mozilla Balkans

Moderators:
[e-mail]

Background Hex Code:
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Comments:
Requesting a discource category for the recently relaunched mozbalkans community.
Will add more folks afterwards as moderators.

Comment 1

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

Currently we can't add per category moderators.

Comment 2

[Brian King [:kinger]]

How does this add more value when we already have a mailing list?

Comment 3

[Ioana Chiorean]

Brian, 
I think it is a good initiative at least from two view points:
- visibility - not all new ( and old ones too ) mozillians in the area know about the list as we did not promote it much lately. Discourse has now a nice participation from many people.
- engagement - we will share easier and we can gather opinion outside balkans in replies too ( grow activity and also have external opinions easier)

Comment 4

[Konstantina Papadea [:couci]]

+1 to Ioana's comment
plus let's not forget that mailing lists create inbox noise for people that are not interested on all the ongoing talks however discource is like a forum where people can raise a point anytime.

Comment 5

[Brian King [:kinger]]

(In reply to Ioana Chiorean from comment #3)
> - visibility - not all new ( and old ones too ) mozillians in the area know
> about the list as we did not promote it much lately. Discourse has now a
> nice participation from many people.

Right, but I suspect not everyone is going to use Discourse either. Some people will be on one, some the other, and some both.

> - engagement - we will share easier and we can gather opinion outside
> balkans in replies too ( grow activity and also have external opinions
> easier)

G Groups posts can be shared too.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.community.balkans

I guess these issues of having multiple channels are not unique to this group, but we should think about how and where we do posts moving forward. e.g. do we just post to one or both?

Comment 6

[tad]

While I of course advocate discourse, this brings a wider discussion.

How do we/do we want to centralise discussion?

I'd suggest a discourse thread to discuss it ;)

Comment 7

[Ioana Chiorean]

(In reply to Brian King [:kinger] from comment #5)
> (In reply to Ioana Chiorean from comment #3)
> > - visibility - not all new ( and old ones too ) mozillians in the area know
> > about the list as we did not promote it much lately. Discourse has now a
> > nice participation from many people.
> 
> Right, but I suspect not everyone is going to use Discourse either. Some
> people will be on one, some the other, and some both.

Agree

> > - engagement - we will share easier and we can gather opinion outside
> > balkans in replies too ( grow activity and also have external opinions
> > easier)
> 
> G Groups posts can be shared too.
> 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.community.balkans
I understand this butit would needed to be share also on Discourse ( FB, Tw etc ) to get input - we did this for balkans first meetings but if we get to more traction we will be spamming mozillians. 
https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/mozilla-balkans-monthly-meetings/847/12
> 
> I guess these issues of having multiple channels are not unique to this
> group, but we should think about how and where we do posts moving forward.
> e.g. do we just post to one or both?

I agree this is not an unique discussion. My only intention to support this is to get more people from balkans engaged. It will be hard to track more than one place agree, but either way we need to check more solutions to engage people in discussion/participation

Comment 8

[Tanner Filip [:tanner]]

Sorry, I totally missed this one. 

Email in is [e-mail]