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Thread: Inability to welcome a new team member and offer help and advice. |
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Former Member
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Hi, I'm John from team Ireland.
When any new member joins our team, the inability to welcome the new team member is a serious issue. I watch new team members joining our team all the time and it is simply impossible to send them a welcome email without sending the email to everybody else on the team that has signed up for email. Team Ireland exists on many BOINC, distributed and grid computing projects and this is not a problem. I would like to send a welcome email to a new team member and offer them any assistance they need to get started and learn about your project. I would like to let a new team member know that the team they just joined does care about helping them and they have team mates to chat with if they choose to. I am aware of WCG's policy on not disclosing personal details to third party's but if someone chooses to join a team, they are doing it so that they are not on their own. If someone wants to be on their own and not contactable, they don't go and join a team. They want to be part of a team. That team currently cannot welcome them or offer help and assistance. The ability to send a private message to a new team member would be a big advantage. Or that a team founder could view the email address's of their team members like most other projects. Any solution to this would be a help. John. |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The workaround is to welcome team members in the team area. Each team can have ONE team thread to reduce a lot of duplication.
----------------------------------------I see that you have already done that. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=15515 As the thread starter, you also have the ability to change the title of the thread, at least for the first 60 days. Yes, I know that there's no email or private messages, but we're limited by whatever IBM wants to give us and the release of this forum software.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello Ireland BOINC,
Our forum software has many limitations. Until this changes, one work-around is to invite your team members to have a conversation over on The DC Zone ( http://forum.thedczone.com/ ), a web board run by PiNkY for people in distributed computing. Lawrence |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Thought about the 'needs' for a while last night with same conclusion as in past: Whatever the shortcomings, present or future forum software or communication features there will exist, regardless if one joins a team or otherwise, I think it wise to not make anything auto-opt-in or release of email account, particularly the main account that works cross project. Know it at one project, know it at all projects (which why WCG was requested and implemented a second team specific mail account option to insert for instance a junket). Whilst BOINC went at great lengths to scramble the main account used to generate the CPID, it's surprising, if not astounding the ease with which it's been given away through the team system (is that correct?)
----------------------------------------For PM, if it should come with the 'planned' forum upgrade, similarly have strong feelings about it explicitly being an opt-in.... I'd even go as far as electing to be able who NOT can either PM or mail or anything in the personal profile (at BOINC fora it only seems to work in suppressing the view of unwanted posts). That auto opt-in gave quite a stink at a number of BOINC project fora. Desirable or not desirable, my vote is to err on the privacy side.
WCG
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