Action Items
New
[AI] {Steve and Jill} will ensure that all mailing list administrator survey responses received will be included in survey results.
[AI] {Jill} will continue to modify the model integration model to reflect comments from WG members.
[AI] {Jill} will invite Sympa developers to participate in the next regularly scheduled WG conference call or schedule a separate call with Sympa developers.
[AI] {John-Paul} will prepare discussion points for Mailman discussion.
[AI] {Jill} will solicit topics from the WG for a potential WG output session at the Spring I2 Member Meeting.
[AI] {Jill} will request for WG output session at Spring I2 Member Meeting.
[AI] {Jim} will follow up on status of UW-Madison and INQ.
[AI] {SteveO} will gather email policy links from survey responses and incorporate them on the WG’s web site.

Carry Over
[AI] {Jill} will send a list of survey respondents to Jim.
[AI] {Paul} will begin developing a list of generic topics addressing spam and mailing list management software.
[AI] {Jim} will solicit feedback about the models from the mailing list survey respondents.
[AI] {John-Paul} will work to find someone interested in packaging and maintaining Sympa for Fedora Core.
[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] {SteveO} will gain a better understanding of Sympa documentation and translation requests and coordinate follow up w/ Renee and Jill.
[AI] {Jill} will develop VO survey distribution list.
[AI] {Jill} will follow up with NSF and DOE for possible VO survey candidates.

Attendees
Jill Gemmill, UAB (Chair)
John-Paul Robinson, UAB
Jim Phelps, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Paul Russell, University of Notre Dame
Terrie Clark, Internet2
Lisa Hogeboom, Internet2
Steve Olshansky, Internet2

Discussion
The next steps for the mailing list administrator survey will be to announce the survey results. The results will be posted on the WG’s website along with a copy of the survey allowing for additional comments. The survey results indicate that interest about mailing list software exists in the higher ed community. Survey results highlights also include an interest in LDAP mailing list management software implementations, open source mailing list management software solutions and the determination that many of the respondents currently consider changing their mailing list management software applications. Most respondents use Mailman or Major Domo, L-Soft or LISTSERV for mailing list management.

WG efforts for model unification are underway. Comments about the model unification should be sent to the WG via the list.

The group will invite Sympa developers to participate in an upcoming call to discuss the Sympa model and the WG’s integration model.

The group will discuss survey results with Mailman developers prior to the Spring I2 Member Meeting in May.

The group discussed topics for proposing as sessions at the Spring I2 Member Meeting in May. The meeting will be held in Arlington, VA from May 2 – 4, 2005. It was discussed that perhaps a BoF session might be an appropriate venue to discuss the survey results. It was proposed to discuss the UAB grant incorporating middleware integration of mailing list management software and PHP wiki or other content management applications. Suggestions for topics should be sent to the WG via the list.

The next call is Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 12:00PM ET. A new, permanent call in number will be disturbed with the agenda prior to the call.