Re: [DIYbio] new mailing list for DIYbio educational outreach

My response to that new mailing list:

On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 4:55:09 PM UTC-7, Ellen Jorgensen wrote:
Hi Maria,

This list started

This is only going to lose the leverage-ability of the pre-existing
diybio mailing-list members. I'm sure there is a single-digit
percentage of members here. Why splinter the community, experts who
don't check often will miss out on opportunity to contribute (all
those who didn't get the update that a splintering occurred).

If you want to track and filter data... why not standardize on a
message-subject title prefix/suffix. In other words, why not just
start a topic with "TEACHERS: <insert topic here>"???

The existing mailing list with tons of people, following, ease of
google-ability, short name that is easy to remember, etc.

I literally have about 5 or 6 email lists all getting dumped into a
single DIYBio folder in my email client. This seems like a real waste
of time, and a real detriment to the community.

:(

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At the last iGEM, many people at the community labs track discussion session
> expressed interest in doing more educational outreach from the DIYbio
> spaces. To better coordinate these efforts, I set up a new googlegroups
> mailing list:
>
> diybioteachers@googlegroups.com
> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/diybioteachers
>
> If you are interested in developing educational outreach programs with your
> DIYbio lab, exchanging teaching tips or descriptions of classes and demos,
> or working on curriculum development - this mailing list is for you! Please
> join us...
>
> Patrik
>
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