See this OLPC wiki page for an introduction to mailing lists.
Sugar Labs lists are hosted by the GNU Mailman project. For help with their service, see their documentation page.
Introduction
See all our mailing lists at http://lists.sugarlabs.org. After registering your email address with the mailing list, you will receive the discussion posts or digests of the posts made to the list server. Archives are available on each list's info page. They contain the full history of discussions about Sugar since the formation of Sugar Labs. This a link to the It's an Education Project archive.
- You may respond to a post in the archive by clicking the author's email address (at the top of the posting) to invoke the mailto: link to the list's address with the post's subject line and message identifiers to place your post properly in the thread.
See also the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) mailing lists and archives at http://lists.laptop.org.
A web-view of mailing lists in a forum-like interface can be found at Nabble. Keep in mind that using Nabble has the following limitations: Nabble does not support posting to more than one mailing list at a time (cross-posting) and Nabble does not index all Sugar lists.
General Lists
- It's an Education Project - Our main mailing list for discussions of Education and Sugar. (See a graphic Self Organising Map for an overview of the past weeks' discussions on the list.)
- Marketing - Where we discuss marketing and outreach for the Sugar Learning Platform and its parent organization, Sugar Labs.
- School Server - A list for discussions on the XS school server (XO school Server).
Project Lists
- Summer of Code - A list to support the Google Summer of Code open source development project.
- Fourth Grade Math - A list supporting the development of activities for the Math4 Project.
Developer Lists
- Sugar-devel - The Sugar developers' email list. (See the graphic Self Organising Map archive for an overview of past months' discussions.)
- Sugar-desarrollo - A Spanish language Sugar developers' mailing list.
- Fedora OLPC - The Fedora development project for OLPC XOs and a Sugar distribution.
- devel - The OLPC developers' email list.
Sugar Labs Systems Infrastructure
- Systems - A list for those supporting the Sugar Labs systems infrastructure.
Starting a new list
The best way to start a new mailing list is to begin a discussion on a current list that's related to the topic. Once the discussion becomes active, ask for a separate list for that topic.
When a critical mass of people are regularly discussing the same topic, email the following information to the IAEP list:
- The name for the new mailing list, with alternative names in case the first one is taken
- A description of the list, its purpose, and why it's needed (being able to say "we've been talking on this other list for a while, and the discussion has grown too big, see these archive links" is helpful)
- The name/email of the list administrator, and of at least one other moderator (minimum, one admin and one moderator)
- At least 10 names/email addresses of people who want to be the initial subscribers