Based on some of the discussion earlier with Hashratez on decision making cycles, I feel it is important for us to offer additional streams of communication such as an emailing list that can help ensure that people do not miss votes and other upcoming community events without at least being informed of them.
There are few things as bad as coming back and finding changes you knew nothing about being in place. That feeling of "Hey! W**?" is not the nicest one around. A mailing list could go a long way towards alleviating that. Particularly as members willing to sign up for such are more likely to be actively contributing constructively.
In this case, setting up an emailing list cost should be none or minimal.
If we want to get fancy and integrate FB/TWITTER/ETC hootsuite is something to look at for the longer term. However, a mailinglist is a good starting point.
Based on some of the discussion earlier with Hashratez on decision making cycles, I feel it is important for us to offer additional streams of communication such as an emailing list that can help ensure that people do not miss votes and other upcoming community events without at least being informed of them.
There are few things as bad as coming back and finding changes you knew nothing about being in place. That feeling of "Hey! W**?" is not the nicest one around. A mailing list could go a long way towards alleviating that. Particularly as members willing to sign up for such are more likely to be actively contributing constructively.
In this case, setting up an emailing list cost should be none or minimal.
If we want to get fancy and integrate FB/TWITTER/ETC hootsuite is something to look at for the longer term. However, a mailinglist is a good starting point.