i5K/Community access

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Community access and web presence

People
Daniel Lawson David Bailey Dr Prem Raj Pushpakaran Gerard Manning Glenn Hanes Gregor Bucher Helene Delatte Jay Evans Monica Munoz-Torres Scott Cain Susan Brown Tatsuhiko Kadowaki Thom Kaufman Yvan Rahbe

Help

Information on how to join this group:

⁜ Using the edit with form tab on their Person page to select the appropriate box in the i5k information tab.

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⁜ Contact bugadmin with a request to join this group.

Issues for discussion

i5K form has options for community members to include their skills and experience (building a support network). At the moment we do not have a list of terms for skills.
- Do we want to use a controlled vocabulary of limited scope here (akin to the working groups) using broad areas, rather than allow free text
- What is our expectation of such an approach, say in comparison to running a discussion forum?
Need for site tutorials and guides
- Many aspects of adding data to the site exist only in the head of a few people and so there is a need to simplify and document the How to of the site. I accept that as the sole part-time developer the onus is on me to write these but I would be interested in feedback of what kind of guides the community would like. Suggestions please?
- How to express interest in a species.
- How to add a database/resource page.
- How to update the status of a genome project.
Newsletter
- Frequency, length and authorship/editors
Mailing lists & communication
- GNU Mailman v Google groups - any comments, experiences to share?