Suggestion on Email accounts for TAC members
Paul Yang Wed 18 Jun 2025 2:15AMPublicSeen by 20Since the TAC will work more closely with the Corporation to represent the 6 communities, it could be more convenient for the TAC members to have distinguished email accounts to make their identities recognizable in the communities.
Email domain suffixes could be openssl-corporation.org, openssl-corporation-tac.org and so forth.
Not quite sure if the pure original openssl.org email suffix still works for this scenario or not.
I considered to set up a poll in this thread, but didn't find out how to do that.. (Found out...)
Poll on Email address suffix
poll by Paul Yang Closed Wed 25 Jun 2025 2:00AM
Outcome: 2 Yes, 1 No and 3 Tentative/Undecided
What is this poll about?
To decide if the TAC members should have OpenSSL email addresses. If so, what do you prefer for the suffix of the address?
Why is this important?
It should be part of the Corporation's culture, just like the T-shirts.
What are you asking people to do?
To vote.
Choose the option(s) you favor.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes, and I wish to have the suffix as...(please comment in the reason box) | 67 | 2 |  | |||
| No, I don't need an extra Email. | 33 | 1 |  | |||
| Undecided | 3 |  |
3 of 6 votes cast (50% participation)
Paul YangWed 18 Jun 2025 2:22AM
I prefer to have a real accessible website domain as the email suffix.
Craig LorentzenWed 18 Jun 2025 2:22AM
I don't expect to be emailing with the community. I expect to be using the communities forum.
Dmitry BelyavskyFri 20 Jun 2025 8:14AM
I share Nicola's concerns
Shane LontisTue 24 Jun 2025 3:58AM
I don't require an openssl email address at this point in time.
Craig LorentzenTue 24 Jun 2025 2:50PM
We'd need to understand the goal better. If we think there are community members who will not engage via the forum, but would via email...then I wonder if the forum system is extensible to provide an email-to-thread and back process so we could have [tb]ac-community which starts a thread with the current representative...
Aditya KorangaThu 26 Jun 2025 5:09AM
Well personally, I dont see any harm in having an openssl email id. Well I am also considering things outside this forum also- when I personally would like to represent openssl in webinars/seminars or workshops or any events then they usually ask for business email(and personal email don't work in such case) and having an openssl email would definitely help in such case however i do understand the concern of other folks too.
Paul YangTue 2 Sep 2025 1:12AM
@Aditya Koranga This is a good point. Sometimes we need to use a 'business email' to participate in meetings / events on behalf of OpenSSL TAC instead of the companies / organizations that we daily work for.
Paul YangTue 23 Sep 2025 6:51AM
I just encountered a scenarios that I was asked for an OpenSSL related suffix email address to attend a meetup...
Nicola Tuveri ·Thu 19 Jun 2025 5:19PM
I am not sure: should this be something like [email protected] and [email protected], and redirected to an email of our choosing until we are in office?
What happens when the representative steps down in favor of a new one?
If it was one more inbox to poll, I am not sure how productive it would be. Probably I'd rather have the conversations in the open here on Loomio.