[Hamara-devel] Mailing list Guidelines

[shirish]

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On 08/28/2015 06:45 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 28/08/15 14:11, Amardeep Singh wrote:
>> Why not refer here https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
> Because that's debian's rules and we are not debian :)
>
>

Hi all,
Sorry for being away. This conference thing has me beaten but still 
trying :)

Anyways, as far as the debian mailing lists are concerned, that's 
another ball-game. You have whole lot of lists from very high-traffic 
lists which are debian-devel

https://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-devel.png

to some of the others which are more passive in nature

https://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-announce.png

So we cannot compare with them. Also for them DFSG or Debian Free 
Software Guidelines guide all their actions. As far as hamara either as 
a company or a foundation should make its own guidelines and rules.

I would suggest 2-3 very simple rules :-

a. No Off-topic chat - While we can and should allow all free software 
chats, including non-GNU/Linux (yes there is free software besides 
GNU/Linux) we should allow that. We could also allow hardware-related 
topics too. What we should not be allowing is either dogs/cats photos or 
any other memes of the day/week etc.

b. No harassment or bullying of any kind and have somebody take that 
position - Maybe Aparna or somebody else from hamara can take that up. 
It could be a simple abuse at hamaralinux.org or something similar. I could 
be temporarily be part of it if needed.

c. Commercial and Events should be properly tagged in Subject such as 
[Events] or [Commercial] [Job]

Apart from this, we can be free, what do people think ?

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org