MACE-MList Conference Call May 25, 2005

*Action Items*

New
[AI] {Jill} will send a note to the group via the list soliciting responses to the change in time for the WG's twice monthly calls. The new time is 11:00AM ET.

Carry Over
[AI] {Paul, Serge and Olivier} will develop a list of generic topics addressing spam and mailing list management software.
[AI] {Jim and John-Paul} will discuss local-interface preference storing of attributes. And, will send a brief summary of the discussion to the WG via the list.
[AI] {Jill} will develop VO survey distribution list, and will follow up with NSF and DOE for possible VO survey candidates.

*Attendees*
Jill Gemmill, University of Alabama at Birmingham (chair)
John-Paul Robinson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Serge Aumont, Comité Réseau des Universités (FR)
Olivier Salaün, Comité Réseau des Universités (FR)
Craig Hancock, Notre Dame
Paul Russell, Notre Dame
Terrie Clark, Internet2
Lisa Hogeboom, Internet2

*Discussion*
NMI-EDIT will hold an Advanced CAMP workshop discussing leveraging campus infrastructure to support virtual organizations from June 29 to July 1, 2005 at the Westin Tabor Center in Denver, Colorado. The activities of the MACE-MList WG pertaining to bundling open source system tools with federated administrative tools will be discussed at the workshop. For more information please see: http://www.educause.edu/camp053.
The WG will provide information about middleware enabling of mailing lists and the next version of Sympa to NMI-EDIT for the next NMI-EDIT release.

Craig Hancock from Notre Dame has volunteered to integrate FEDORA core with Sympa. Craig's contact information will be listed on the WG's web site in an effort to, along with Sympa developers, facilitate further collaboration for the development.

As a result of the WG's presentations at the Spring Internet2 Member Meeting, institutions have expressed interest in using open-source integrated mailing list management software. The primary focus of the WG has been on how to develop an open-source integrated MLM, however, equipment will be ordered soon to serve as an open-source MLM prototype by the Internet2 community. Sympa developers will provide an interactive demo for federation member higher-ed institutions desiring to evaluate open-source MLM's. The demo will limit the number of group members per mailing list.

Sympa developers will also include some of the WG's efforts into Sympa for a Sympa release to be available early this fall.

Is it within the scope of MACE activities to focus on spam, mailing lists and implications of new standard's issues? In order to address these topics in the MACE-MList WG, the WG would have to revise its charter and subsequent deliverables. It is possible to collaborate on these issues with SALSA, however direction from MACE is desired prior to the new collaborative effort. The VO survey is the final deliverable for the WG under the current version of its charter.

The next call is Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 11:00AM ET**. **Please note the new call time. The call in number will be distributed with the agenda prior to the call.