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  • From: ak.miller at auckland.ac.nz (Andrew Miller)
  • Subject: [cellml-discussion] [team-cellml] @cellml.org addresses
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:32:44 +1200
James Lawson wrote:
> See below...
>
> Andrew Miller 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> That does then create issues about who to include in this list (and what
>> to do if people are away), which is always contentious ground. The
>> current approach works well, so why change it?
>>
>
> What current approach exactly are you talking about?
The way we currently manage the CellML project.
> The reason for
> changing it is to use the project team page as a sort of help page.
>
The problem that lead to this thread of discussion is that there is no
well-defined project team, and I don't think that we need to create a
formal project team to make a list of contact addresses.
> Peter is keen on this being implemented and we're just discussing the
> best way to do it. At present I'm leaning towards the original idea -
> just collecting some information about the key people in the CellML
> project team, and providing that information, along with email
> addresses, and a strong encouragement to use the cellml-discussion
> mailing list.
I don't think we should use the word 'project team' because there is no
formal project team. Perhaps we can just have a list of people
categorised by their interest in the CellML project, and then a contact
page which helps people find certain people (for example, we could have
a category for technical issues with cellml.org, which would list Tommy,
a category for people with the ability to curate cardiac
electrophysiology models, which would list James, and a category for
people with an interest in cardiac electrophysiological modelling, which
would list anyone who wanted to be on the list).

> There is then the issue of whether we use our own email
> addresses or @cellml.org addresses. Andre is keen on the latter, and I
> agree.
>
Although I am not entirely convinced that it is necessary or beneficial,
and I think that we risk harming the community nature of CellML by
saying that only certain people can get a cellml.org e-mail address.

Best regards,
Andrew



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