On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Scott Crosby <
scr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> seems like the passive nature of the inbox is the best way not to miss
> anything. requiring one to actively pull up a webpage or calendar or
> something means you'll miss a lot. I know people who even missed out on
> Barways, and thus their clever "web only" strategy backfired. true sadness.
Yeah, well, different people have different priorities :)
> some techniques to consider:
>
> 1) definitely don't use your work email
> 2) archive a lot
> 3) "m"ute a lot of threads that don't interest you
> 4) for god's sake, use a threaded client like gmail on chrome (ios version
> is great)
For sure.
>
> we have considered the idea of moving ride calls to a web form, which would
> give us more/infinite options for disseminating the key info (and would mean
> that ride calls would more often contain all the necessary info):
>
> - email to group
> - calendar entry
> - updated webpage with tomorrow's/this week's rides (which people could +1
> to somehow)
> - tweet to @sf2g
> - post to strava as an event?
>
> then again, the current system ain't that bad imho.
Yeah, email works well as a common denominator, especially through
groups since some people just read stuff there (instead of their
inbox). Also, many of the alternatives suffer from the problem of how
to keep spammers out, which google-groups has already solved. My
proposed compromise was going to be to write a bot which scans the
group emails and parses ride calls and adds them automatically to a
publicly viewable SF2G calendar -- with links back to the google-group
thread so you could keep up on updates & action....but that is among
one of several dozen projects I have on time for. (Any appengine
volunteers out there?)