On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:32:57AM +0200, Josef Assad wrote: > On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:06:33 -0400 > Ben Williamson <tek_notes at bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > Has anyone thought about getting something together to manager > > everyone. We could maybe have different categories of coders, > > beginner, advanced etc... and state everyones weaknesses and > > strengths so that when a new project becomes available you know who > > to include on the email chain.... Just thinking out loud here, main > > reason being its hard to keep up with all the emails coming in... > > In this case, maybe a wiki page could serve as the central reference > for who is on what and what is open where, along with status. Like this: > > http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ProjectStatus Nah, I really don't like that as it is much easier to check/manage email than a wiki page. Also, a number of companies don't like being mentioned... > As for the traffic volume, a simple project ID tag in the subject line > could work well. > > Subject: [PRJ003] ACME detonating USB connector You can easily filter on the messages now, just look at the headers for what to do. > Incidentally, I'm on this list because I volunteered for marketing > tasks (if any) way back in the stone age of this project, and for > project management when Greg asked for it. If there's a dev out there > who would like an interface to a device vendor or a bit of thinking > about how to structure/proceed, shout something in my general direction. Anything you can think of how to market this project better, to get a wider audience of companies that can take advantage of it, would be greatly appreciated. Right now we have way more developers than projects, a very nice problem to have, but one that I want to try to fix :) thanks, greg k-h