[Babase] A proposed Babase announcment

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Wed Feb 20 15:08:00 EST 2008


> The downside is that someone might actually send us an
> email.

By "us" do you mean you, to kop at meme.com?

> Then, in order to be polite, we might have
> to respond.  We could get everything from spelling
> corrections to database schema design critiques to
> questions as to whether the database
> would be suitable for polar bear tracking.
> We'd have to decide to whom to refer these emails.

OK thanks for clarifying. At the moment I can't imagine that I can  
field any more emails, so perhaps better not to invite any. I don't  
want to see any database schema design critiques.

> I imagine I'll get emails, eventually, no matter what.  My name
> and email address is all over the code and will be
> the From address of the announcement.

Good point. Presumably and hopefully these will be low volume and  
will happen no matter whether we ask for volunteer code contributions  
or not. At the moment I am inclined towards not inviting any  
volunteer contributions. When you do get emails, would you bill us  
for that time or would that be on your time? As you can imagine, this  
question has become more pressing recently. If you felt you would  
have to bill us (which I would understand) then I think we would need  
to explicitly say that we most likely can not respond to email  
inquiries except in a very limited way.

Susan

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Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone  
919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu



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