[gmx-developers] gmx-developer mailing - update and future

[Erik Lindahl]

I would suggest we don't worry about it prematurely, and not even worry about any password at all. The first time we have somebody crashing a meeting we can switch to either:

1) Ask users to specify their full name & affiliation in their zoom label, and config the room so a host only let's people in that look like scientists.

Or

2) if that still doesn't work, we'll have to tell interested parties to ask us for the password over email ahead of the meeting.

Cheers,

Erik

--
Erik Lindahl, Professor of Biophysics
Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University & KTH
On 30 Sep 2022 at 14:22 +0200, Andrey Alekseenko <andrey.alekseenko at scilifelab.se>, wrote:
> Hi Alessandra,
>
> Perhaps more entities are scanning discourse, but the announcements
> are not particularly hidden now.
>
> Googling "gromacs zoom" has
> https://mailman-1.sys.kth.se/pipermail/gromacs.org_gmx-developers/2022-March/011186.html
> as the first result, which contains the link and is accessible to anyone.
>
> --
> Andrey
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 2:06 PM Alessandra Villa
> <alessandra.villa.biosim at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi again,
> > I just got a concern on having the developers posts visible to everybody on the forum. GROMACS forum is continuously scanned by crawlers. In the developers category, posts on the Wedsnesday meeting (including details of the zoom room) will be set. I can not estimate if this could cause not-project-related persons mis-using the zoom information or disturbing the call. An alternative is to have the developers category visible to all the forum users (this also includes sign-in GROMACS users that do not belong to the developers group).
> > Maybe it can be discussed on next Wedsnesday.
> >
> > Alessandra
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 2:52 PM Alessandra Villa <alessandra.villa.biosim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thank you for all the inputs. The issue with the mailing-list is still not solved. So I have started to work on the forum implementation. Here some information on the new setting:
> > > I have created a category "developers" under forums.gromacs.org (discourse forum). The category matches a mailing-list setting. The posts are visible to everybody, but only members of group GROMACS developers can post. To join the developers group, one can sign in to the forum and send a request following the instruction in the category description.
> > > Once things are set, I will mail a date for the transition.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Alessandra
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 8:13 PM Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 9/21/22 1:58 PM, Benson Muite wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > - a reserve category under discourse emulating the mailing-list setting, where only member can post, accessible via email and via the web interface (visible to everybody or only the members)
> > > >
> > > > LAMMPS (https://matsci.org/) and Kitware (https://discourse.kitware.com/) use discourse
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I like the way the user forum is working under Discourse. I think it is very easy to interact with it in a mailing-list style while also having useful features like attachments, formatting for code snippets, etc. Having a developer-only forum would be useful, in my opinion. It could be visible to the rest of the community but perhaps permissions can be set so that only verified developers can access it to post.
> > > >
> > > > -Justin
> > > >
> > > > - chat type channel
> > > >
> > > > Have used selfhosted Mattermost and Zulip. A number of communities also use Matrix.
> > > >
> > > > - or other suggestions/ideas
> > > >
> > > > Maybe something could be developed here:
> > > > https://bssw.io/blog_posts/applications-open-for-the-2023-bssw-fellowship-program
> > > > funding restricted to US institutions
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Paul kindly agrees to present the topic on Wednesday. It will be good to know what are the thoughts about this.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards
> > > > Alessandra
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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