Andrew Miller wrote: > 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. >
So perhaps we could have two groups - the main cellml team, and then the cellml community. We'd probably want those on different, linked pages. >>>> 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 _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
