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[cellml-discussion] Proposal: Local CellML team e-mail addresses


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  • From: j.lawson at auckland.ac.nz (James Lawson)
  • Subject: [cellml-discussion] Proposal: Local CellML team e-mail addresses
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:37:04 +1200
Andrew Miller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There has been some discussion recently about how best to handle local
> CellML addresses (which can be used by local groups with an interest in
> CellML to arrange meetings and hold other discussions which are purely
> local in scope and not of interest to the broader CellML community).
>

Something I didn't think of before... surely most other groups already
have a mailing list that serves their group's interest anyway... What
would make it worthwhile for them to actually swap over to an official
cellml list?

> At the University of Auckland, we have a list for the Auckland CellML
> team. However, I feel that some of the discussion on that list would
> probably better occur on the cellml-discussion mailing list (or another
> more public forum). After discussing this at our Auckland CellML group
> meeting, it was suggested that perhaps similar issues are arising at
> other localised groups working on CellML. To this end, we came up with a
> rough proposal (which I expand on below) which I hope will help both the
> Auckland group and other groups using CellML to collaborate.
>
> Please note that this is just a proposal, and I would welcome feedback
> on how we can improve it. I would be especially interested to hear
> opinions from other groups outside Auckland using CellML.
>
> Proposal:
> "
> 1) Groups can request <location>@cellml.org mailing lists.
> a) Any group which is working on a CellML related project may [follow
> some procedure which needs to be decided] to request a mailing list for
> discussion of location specific matters related to their CellML project.
> b) The e-mail address requested shall follow the format
> <location>@cellml.org, where <location> is replaced with a short word,
> phrase, or abbrevation which describes the geographical location of the
> group concerned.
> c) The location name should be sufficient to uniquely distinguish the
> group from other separate groups that may wish to work on CellML. List
> names are subject to review to ensure that they are unlikely to conflict
> with another group or cause confusion.
>
> 2) Location-specific mailing lists to have open membership and be
> publicly archived.
> a) Any person may join any location-specific mailing list without
> moderator approval, regardless of their actual geographic location.
> b) All location-specific mailing lists shall have a publicly readable
> archive, hosted at cellml.org.
>
> 3) Scope and posting rules for location-specific mailing lists.
> a) All messages posted to location-specific mailing lists must be
> related in some way to CellML, or to tools which process CellML, or to
> the operation of groups with an interest in CellML. Some degree of
> leeway should be afforded by cellml.org administrators here, as long as
> the list is not being used as a free hosting service for work not even
> vaguely related CellML.
> b) Message posters are strongly encouraged to send messages which may
> be of broader interest to the cellml-discussion list rather than to the
> location-specific address.
> c) The location-specific mailing lists must not be used for
> information which is of a private or confidential nature (after all, it
> is an open membership list with a public archive).
> d) All posters to location-specific mailing lists agree that their
> messages may be further distributed (with attribution to them),
> including by forwarding to the cellml-discussion list or by inclusion in
> public bug-trackers (and also agree to the translation of their messages
> into another language).
> e) The location-specific groups may establish their own additional
> posting rules by their normal decision-making process, as long as these
> posting rules do not conflict with the general rules described here.
> These posting rules may include (without limitation) the scope of the
> list, who is allowed to post to the list (but not who can subscribe) and
> how often, and the permitted language(s) of any posts to the list.
>
> 4) Administration and moderation of location-specific mailing lists.
> a) Each location-specific group shall determine their own process for
> the control of their own mailing lists, and their nominated
> administrator will be provided with a password allowing them access to
> the administrative interface.
> b) Group designated administrators are free to change the settings of
> the groups location-specific CellML mailing list (after changes are
> approved through the appropriate local decision-making processes).
> However, they must not make changes which cause the mailing list
> archives to be no longer public, or which cause the list to require
> moderator approval before allowing subscriptions.
> c) Group designated administrators may also (in accordance with
> locally determined policies) subscribe and remove people from their
> mailing lists are a service to the person being added or removed.
> Administrators may infer that a person wishes to be added or removed
> from the mailing list if they are visiting / commencing employment or
> leaving the group respectively. However, administrators may not add or
> remove any person from the mailing list who does not wish to be added or
> removed, as this would prevent the list from being open membership.
> d) Group designated administrators may (in accordance with locally
> determined policies) use the moderation features of mailman to enforce
> the posting rules for the list.
>
> 5) Transitional measures for the Auckland group:
> a) A list auckland at cellml.org will be created.
> b) All members of the list team-cellml at list.bioeng.auckland.ac.nz will
> be subscribed to auckland at cellml.org.
> c) Andrew Miller will be the initial designated administrator of
> auckland at cellml.org.
> d) There will be no initial additional posting rules for
> auckland at cellml.org.
> e) The team-cellml at lists.auckland.ac.nz mailing list will be closed to
> new posts after the new list is set up and tested. The archives will
> remain as they currently are.
> "
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew Miller
>
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