The reason I thought this topic was appropriate for team-cellml, is because it is specifically talking about our project team.
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. > >> 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 cellml-discussion@cellml.org 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 > cellml-discussion@cellml.org > http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list cellml-discussion@cellml.org http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
