Tell users to watch any tag for areas they are interested in
Make a subcategory in announcements for “events”
Announce local meetups there, conferences Snowdrift folks will be at etc. using appropriate local tags
Benefits over CiviCRM: Anyone can see event listings even if they aren’t located in a region but might just be visiting etc.
Example: Here in Portland this weekend, CLS and OSCON next week (note: free Expo Plus pass with code EXPOFREE), I’d like to announce this to the old Portland email list while also inviting people to the forum and telling them how to continue staying connected in that way after we shut down mailman.
If we want everyone to watch “Announcements” by default, then putting “Events” within that is going to send emails too often to everyone and push them to stop watching the main Announcements category.
Options:
make another subcategory for key announcements limited to the things we really want to ping everyone about ←my vote
move #events to a different place
make #events default to mute (which would hide it from Latest even) ← I think we do not want this option
scrap the category and just have event announcements be posts with the “event” tag within the #clear-the-path:outreach category
Not sure. Maybe “major announcements” or something like that…
Yeah, I’m actually okay with trying this. I think we can get away with something for now and not have to get this right the first try…
I don’t know, but medium or long-term, it could be great. We’d certainly encourage rather than discourage the idea of people who happen to be at an event doing a Snowdrift BoF even if no team members are around…
That sounds like a fine solution. I also like that it resolves forcing people to automatically follow an entire category while still making sure eyes see the big announcements.