[CIG-SHORT] Fwd: CIG Mailing lists are Moving!

[Brad Aagaard]

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Subject: 	[EXTERNAL] [CIG-announce] CIG Mailing lists are Moving!
Date: 	Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:16:51 -0800
From: 	Lorraine Hwang <ljhwang at ucdavis.edu>
To: 	cig-announce at geodynamics.org




3 December 2018

Dear CIG Community,

In an effort to improve the service we provide to the 
geophysics community, we plan to migrate all CIG mailing lists to a 
hybrid of a discussion forum and mailing list. The forum will provide 
you a searchable and open interface to locate present and past 
discussion topics as well as a way for you to continue to give and 
receive help to and from members of your community. You may 
also interact via email similar to the current mailing list. It 
will offer a simpler and more direct way of interacting with your 
community, while including advanced features such as referencing Github 
issues, exchanging figures or small datasets, filtering posts by tags, 
and conducting polls. This action is the final phase roll out of the 
forum for the entire CIG community. We encourage you to provide feedback 
on what can be improved.

Our new forum is online at:

     https://community.geodynamics.org/


We have chosen the open source platform Discourse as a civilized 
place to hold discussions. You can find out more about the underlying 
platform by navigating here: https://www.discourse.org/. The forum 
supports login using your GitHub account, or you can create a new 
account (you can retire/unsubscribe the account you used for the CIG 
mailing lists).

To begin:

1, Sign up by navigating to:

     https://community.geodynamics.org/login


2. Check your email and spam folder. User accounts are 
automatically approved upon registering. Follow instructions to activate 
your account.
3. Login in with your new account.
4. Read the header on the page that begins with “Welcome … “, and 
the Code of Conduct.

At this point you should see the available forum categories that you can 
watch and receive emails from.

There are quite a number of tweakable settings and features in 
regards to the number and frequency of notifications you can receive 
about the topics that interest you, so we encourage you to explore. You 
may in particular wish to check your user settings 'Emails' and 
'Notifications' to make sure you receive notifications about the 
categories you are interested in. You can also look at posts in other 
communities that have already transitioned to get a feeling for the new 
interface.

We will modify the mailing lists in the coming days to add a note 
about the transition to every delivered mail. We anticipate continuing 
the forwarding until January 31, 2019 to ensure a smooth transition 
and encourage you all to sign up early and help us make this a 
robust platform for our community.

Problems or questions? Please send an email to:
help at geodynamics.org <mailto:help at geodynamics.org>

Thanks for your participation!

Best,
-Lorraine

*****************************
Lorraine Hwang, Ph.D.
Associate Director, CIG
530.752.3656 <tel:530.752.3656>


Best,
-Lorraine

*****************************
Lorraine Hwang, Ph.D.
Associate Director, CIG
530.752.3656






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