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. >>> 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 [email protected] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> or something :) >>> >> I like the sound of that :-) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> team-cellml mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://list.bioeng.auckland.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/team-cellml >> > > _______________________________________________ > team-cellml mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.bioeng.auckland.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/team-cellml > _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
