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  • From: j.lawson at auckland.ac.nz (James Lawson)
  • Subject: [cellml-discussion] [team-cellml] @cellml.org addresses
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:51:16 +1200
Andrew Miller wrote:
> James Lawson wrote:
>> David Nickerson wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> Just the "management" team? Perhaps I'll get a list of who exactly is on
>> the 'team-cellml' list and that can be the initial list. Plus Penny, on
>> Peter's request.
>>
> The team-cellml list is not intended to be a list of people involved in
> the management of CellML, and membership on that list is not supposed to
> imply any sort of increased status with the CellML project (it is merely
> supposed to be an Auckland-local list for meeting notifications and so
> on). I don't think we have ever refused to subscribe anyone who wanted
> to be on that list from being on there (subscription requests only
> require approval to keep spammers off and to ensure that people realise
> that it is not the main CellML list).
>
> 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.
>

So perhaps we could have two groups - the main cellml team, and then the
cellml community. We'd probably want those on different, linked pages.

>>>> 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).
>> Well, it does get a fair amount of traffic. Although it seems to mainly
>> just be you, Matt, Tommy and I, and occasionally Andrew. It was nice to
>> see some others like Winfred Li and Jonathan Cooper posting on the
>>
> Having high traffic on the list does at least demonstrate that the
> CellML project is still active. That said, I agree that being on a
> moderate traffic mailing list when you are only interested in one thing
> is probably a little bit annoying (I have to manage how many mailing
> lists I get on because it does add up once you are getting a few
> messages a day from dozens of lists).
>
> We can't make the list completely open for posting by non-subscribers
> (because we would get a lot of spam, as has been a problem with previous
> open @cellml.org lists). However, we could have a system were users have
> to confirm their own message to ensure they use a valid sender address.
> The only problem would be ensuring that we copy people on the threads
> that they started (although with a bit of coding we could make mailman
> do this automatically as long as the thread header got kept correctly by
> the UA).
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
>> cellml-discussion list the other day.
>>
>>
>>>> Maybe you could go for a compromise Andre and use imperator at cellml.org
>>>> or something :)
>>>>
>>> I like the sound of that :-)
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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