Hi, Sanford wrote to move the mailing list to google groups. I think thats *very important* to get some fresh air into the discussions and to invite more people to take part in certain developments. Easy access is the very first part. People who are not programmers usually do not have a SF.net login but 60-80% of the people have a google account.
I think the current state is that the whole Blue Obelisk Movement looks very closed (also due to the technical problems) and people get enough E-mail so having the whole list on google groups will generate easier access and more transparency. **** Blog vs. Discussion groups RANT **** I know that its fashionable to blog and usually people generate much more traffic there (look at the very interesting Chemspider-PMR feud) but the whole format makes it really hard to follow certain discussions. Also if there are important discussions i like to follow in thread-like google groups stile and not in a messed up blogger-format or wordpress-format where sometimes it is not clear who wrote what and the HTML format of the reply is messed-up anyway. Although I like to read blogs I dont have time to follow 20 blogs and such important discussions like: "Should we curate commercial spectra collections?" could be discussed in a much more denser environment like the BO forum where all people follow. But maybe thats oldstyle web 1.0 .-) And maybe people come to blueobelisk.org because of the blogs. Anyway, thanks to Egon and Christoph an others for handling all the BO web and mail in the past. Sanford, regarding the red hen spectra test, I hope the sign-up process works now. Just send some more information to me. Tobias Dr. Tobias Kind UC Davis Genome Center Metabolomics Group http://genomecenter.ucdavis.edu Tel:+1-530-754-5396 _______________________________________________ Blue-obelisk mailing list Blue-obelisk@hardly.cubic.uni-koeln.de http://hardly.cubic.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/blue-obelisk
