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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 15:54:53 +1200
The reason I thought this topic was appropriate for team-cellml, is
because it is specifically talking about our project team.

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.
>
> 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.
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