On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester@gmail.com> wrote:

I think there's no real need for an announce only list for the chapter -- I do think there is a need for one for Wikimania, but I do not know how it will integrate with the existing lists for Wikimania 11. I'd throw everything into a single read/write WM DC list, and then have a separate read/write for all things Wikimania 12 related (paired with an announce-only list) , as the constituents of the DC chapter and Wikimania lists will be differing.

As far as having a wm-dc-announce list is concerned, I think the key question is whether the people who are subscribed mainly to find out about meetups/events/etc. will be overly troubled by a large amount of "organizational" traffic on the list. Some of the more arcane things might transition to a wm-dc-board list if one is created; but there will probably continue to be significant discussion on this list as well.

One way to approach this might be to keep one list for the next couple of months, and then run a survey to see whether subscribers would prefer a split.

Kirill