[cellml-discussion] [team-cellml] @cellml.org addresses

[David Nickerson]

>>> I see the project team is being the core management team for the CellML 
>>> project - essentially the group that should be making the decisions when 
>>> consensus can't be reached and setting the goals for the future of the 
>>> CellML project. Although I'm really not too sure who would be included 
>>> in such a group.
>>>     
> At present, CellML meetings are open to anyone who wants to attend 
> (although obviously the fact that they are held in Auckland limits that 
> set from a lot of people who want to attend), and 'final' decisions are 
> made at the meetings by whoever turns up.

I would really like to see a move away from this toward an actual 
project management team. The current approach seems a bit too arbitrary 
to me.

> In terms of the policy for allocating addresses, we don't want to become 
> a free e-mail redirection host for anyone on the Internet, but I think 
> as long as someone at least has some connection with CellML, they should 
> be allowed an alias (subject to review of what that alias is to ensure 
> it is unlikely to cause confusion or conflict with future lists / 
> aliases we might want to assign).
> 
> I suggest that we simply give an @cellml.org alias to anyone who asks 
> for one and has a demonstrated interest of some kind in the CellML 
> project (whether they are a modeller using CellML, a tool developer, or 
> interested in some of the theoretical or mathematical aspects of 
> CellML). Simply providing a form to fill out providing details to list, 
> and having someone briefly review them should be sufficient to keep out 
> people who just want the e-mail alias.

While I am unsure how much interest or usefulness there is in providing 
such a service, I guess I have no problems with this suggestion. 
Although it will require input from the Auckland IT team as to what is 
required to implement such a service for a larger group than the core 
management team as we were originally discussing.

> 
>>>> P.S. Peter is away from today until the 20th July, getting back to the
>>>> office on the 23rd, if you didn't get the email.
>>>>       
>>> I would like to see this mailing list used as more of place for decision 
>>> making so that things like this shouldn't affect the project.
>>>     
> I think cellml-discussion at cellml.org is much more appropriate for such 
> discussions than the team-cellml list, to which only e-mails which are 
> unlikely to be relevant outside of the Auckland group should be sent. 
> This has been agreed on at CellML meetings (before you were working on 
> the CellML project), and unless that decision is revisited I think we 
> should all try to abide by it to ensure that no-one outside of Auckland 
> who wants to contribute to CellML is unable to post (the list is 
> publicly indexed so others could read it if they wanted to, but if they 
> are not on the list they might be unaware that discussions are taking 
> place).

Now that you've redirected this thread to the cellml-discussion list I'm 
really getting confused which mailing lists you are talking about? Last 
time I tried the team-cellml archive was not publicly available outside 
the UoA?? (just tried again, and that hasn't changed.)



David.