>>> 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 [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). 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. _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
