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hi Melvin,

i think this is a nice idea to help increase communications but i
would like to share a few things i observed over the time we published
the API-SIG newsletter.

1. sometimes not much changes. we noticed this trend as the SIG become
more and more mature, basically there were fewer and fewer weekly
items to report. perhaps a monthly cadence will be better for
collecting input from the various SIGs, but just a heads up that it is
possible for some groups to have slow movement between updates.

2. tough to gauge readership. this was always something i was curious
about, we never had many (or really any) responses to our newsletters.
i did receive a few personal notes of appreciation, which were
tremendous boosts, but aside from that it was difficult to know if our
message was getting across.

3. are we talking to ourselves? this kinda follows point 2, depending
on how the newsletter is received it is entirely possible that we were
just publishing our newsletter for ourselves. i like to think this
wasn't the case, but i think it's something to be aware of as we start
to ask SIGs to take time to contribute.

mind you, i don't think any of these points should dissuade the
community from publishing a SIG newsletter. i wanted to share my
experiences just to help build awareness as we launch this new effort.

peace o/
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:16 PM Melvin Hillsman <mrhillsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> During the Forum we discussed one simple way we could move forward to hopefully get more visibility and activity within SIGs. Here is a proposal for such a step. Send out a monthly email to openstack-discuss with the following information from each SIG captured via etherpad [0]
>
> 1. What success(es) have you had this month as a SIG?
> 2. What should we know about the SIG for the next month?
> 3. What would you like help (hands) or feedback (eyes) on?
>
> Besides the ML, other places this could be re-used in whole or part is on social media, SU Blog, etc. Thoughts?
>
> [0] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/sig-updates
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Melvin Hillsman
> mrhillsman at gmail.com
> mobile: (832) 264-2646