For INTERNAL committee work, we will establish a web page with useful
information on it. It will contain a link to a set of pages that
archive our internal communications (this is the e-mail messages that,
at the moment, are being sent to "evat@mit.edu"). Then, a display
scheme already in use for 6.095, which Brian is familiar with, will
be used to permit easy browsing by committee members. This set of
pages will not be intended for people outside the committee, although
I suppose no great harm would be done if it were seen externally.
This material would be like drafts of papers, initial flakey ideas,
etc. We would agree not to tell people outside the committee the
URL, and would not link to it from other pages, so the various
automatic web worms would not discover it.
For EXTERNAL communication, including especially comments to the
committee from others at MIT (or elsewhere), we should establish
a home page whose URL will be publicly announced. We should also
have an e-mail address to which comments can be sent. These
comments would then, first, appear in a news group to be defined,
and, second, to flow from this news group to an achive with the
same display scheme mentioned above. Comments made directly to the
news group would also be archived in this way.
Names: Logically, the e-mail address available to outsiders
should be the simplest possible, and need not refer to this
committee specifically, since it is possible that the newes group
could outlast the committee. I propose that, after our meeting
on Wednesday, if all agree, we use the address "evat@mit.edu"
for this purpose, and use a new address, say "cevat@mit.edu", for
internal committee purposes ("cevat" stands for "Committee on
Education..."). Until Wednesday, continue to send mail to "evat@mit.edu"
and it will get to the committee.
What do you think? ...../Paul