[Sigmet-officers] SIGMETRICS list

[Judit Bar-Ilan]

Dear All,


This is a very delicate situation. Of course we do not want the SIGMETRICS
list to discontinue. It is rather hard to follow the discussion thread.


On January 4, 2011 Gretchen agreed to continue to moderate the list.


Previously, on December 24, 2010 she wrote (if I understand correctly):

I would let the new SIG do their things their way. I will close  down
SIGMET the end of the fiscal year, which will give them ample  opportunity
to figure out how to resolve communications.

I'm more than willing to let you have the subscribers names. I am mulling
over if I am willing to let you have the archives… I'm leaning to have you
have them as > long as you can preserve them as my work of art and my
creation.


She made negative remarks about Twitter and Facebook last year as well.


I think that it is best that Jonathan approached her, thanking her and
reminding her of her email of January 4, and assuring her that nothing
changed since; we view the SIGMETRICS list as a most valuable list where
SIG/MET members and non SIG/MET members conduct serious metrics
discussions. We ask her again to continue to moderate the list. Also,
explain that we have never asked to change anything; we only wanted to have
a direct link from ASIST to the SIGMETRICS list. I think that cc-ing Dick
on this would be a good idea. And of course cc-ing Stasa.


Now from our website we link to http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html,
which says that this is a virtual special interest group (but this page is
not maintained by Gretchen, so we might not be able to change this).  Btw,
I see that our page was updated on http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html, but
the information on http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGMET/ is outdated.


Let us hope for the best. In the meantime we should look for new options as
well, because this is already the second time Gretchen announced that she
will close down the list.


Regards,

Judit


On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM, sigmet-officers-request at asis.org <
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> From: Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>
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>  Dear all,
>
> I am forwarding you email threads that ensued after I had asked to have
> a link that directs to the SIGMETRICS list subscription info from the
> ASIST SIG Metrics website.
>
> This request (which was honored by Jan and Dick) has, however, triggered
> some negative response from Dr. Whitney, who now announces that she will
> be shutting down the list. I know that Dietmar asked Gretchen to
> continue to maintain the mailing list at UTK when we stopped being a
> virtual SIG, but, to my knowledge, she never responded to his email.
>
> I most certainly do not see any reason not to continue using the current
> list and servers at UTK.
>
> Does anyone know whether any arrangements were made with Gretchen in the
> end, and also can a moderator terminate the SIG list without first
> making sure that it is seamlessly transferred to another server (if
> needed)?
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>
> Best,
> Stasa
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Judit Bar-Ilan
Head of Department
Department of Information Science
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
Tel: 972-3-5318351 Fax: 972-3-7384027
email: Judit.Bar-Ilan at biu.ac.il <barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il>
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