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Subject: [B8MB] State of Affairs, 20 Mar 2007

From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:33:38 +0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <nan.20070320203338$1b6b@killfile.org>



This is an official announcement from the Big-8 Management Board.



Recent Actions

--------------



Since the last announcement (in February), the following proposals

have been completed:



       - Two new newsgroups were created: rec.radio.amateur.moderated

         and rec.ponds.moderated,

       - Twelve existing newsgroups were removed: comp.org.team-os2,

         comp.org.eff.news, comp.os.ms-windows.announce,

         comp.org.cpsr.announce, rec.arts.movies.announce,

         comp.std.lisp, rec.arts.disney.announce, rec.aviation.announce,

         rec.aviation.answers, rec.aviation.questions,

         soc.religion.vaishnava, and rec.games.trading-cards.announce

       - New moderators were appointed for one moderated newsgroup:

         rec.radio.info .



In addition, one proposal has been withdrawn (create the newsgroup

news.service-providers).



There is currently one open proposal to change the moderation policy

of news.groups.proposals, two to create new groups, and six to remove

existing groups.





Big 8 Management Board

----------------------



Four members' terms were due to expire in mid-April.  Three members (Dave

Sill, Martin Moleski, and Thomas Lee) wished to remain on the Board and

their retention was confirmed by a Board vote.  Joe Bernstein's term is

also due to expire on April 1st, but he does not intend to seek another

term.





news.groups.proposals

---------------------



As a reminder, the moderated newsgroup news.groups.proposals was created

on 14 Nov 2006.  All "official" discussion of active proposals now takes

place in this group; this has proven to be remarkably successful.  There is an

open proposal to modify the moderation policy for news.groups.proposals.



For more information on the group, please see its homepage at:



  http://www.big-8.org/~ngp/





Call For Proposals

------------------



The Board would like to once again officially encourage users to propose

new, interesting groups throughout the Big-8 hierarchies.  The Board and

the newly-reformed Group Mentors would be happy to help you refine your

ideas into an RFD; and if your proposal appears to have a good shot at

creating a well-named, well-used group, we are probably willing to give

your idea a chance.  Be creative!  Extra points go to proposals that

promise to bring entirely new users to Usenet.





Volunteer Committees

--------------------



Our monthly reminder - the B8MB is attempting to put together several

volunteer organizations to handle individual aspects of the new group

creation system.  These groups are not currently fully populated, but they

have fairly clear (if general) goals.  And most importantly, they have

mailing lists, so it's possible to start getting them organized.



Please, if you are interested in helping out the Big-8, or Usenet as a

whole, please volunteer for one (or more) of these groups!  And if you

would like to help shape the future of the groups, and have the time to

help coordinate them, please contact the listed Coordinator.





  Usenet Volunteer Pollsters

  ==========================



  Coordinator    Tim Skirvin

  Mailing List   http://lists.big-8.org/mailman/listinfo/uvp/

  Description    http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:polltakers





  Usenet Volunteer Moderators

  ===========================



  Coordinator    Tim Skirvin

  Mailing List   http://lists.big-8.org/mailman/listinfo/uvm/

  Description    http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:moderators





  Group Mentors

  =============



  Coordinator    Tim Skirvin

  Mailing List   http://lists.big-8.org/mailman/listinfo/group-mentors/

  Description    http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:mentors





  Deadwood Groups Task Force

  ==========================



  Coordinator    Dave Sill

  Mailing List   (see description)

  Description    http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:deadgroups





  News Service Providers Committee

  ============================



  Coordinator    Marty Moleski (pro tem)

  Mailing List   http://lists.big-8.org/mailman/listinfo/nspc

  Description    http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:nspc





		                    - The Big-8 Management Board

-- http://www.big-8.org/ Big-8 Management Board 

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