New Newsletter issues, technical difficulties and invitation



Dear Members of the G2 Commission and Subscribers of the Massive Star Newsletter,

The Newsletter issues numbers 157-164 (March 2017-April 2018) are available in the webpage:
http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/massive_stars/news.php


As you are aware there are two main important components in the way we communicate our scientific contributions to the rest of the community in an efficient way: 24-hour announcements that get sent out to subscribers upon submission and periodic Newsletter that is a summary of all those announcements acting as an important repository and represents an identity of our massive star community.

However, the fact that several Newsletter issues have been uploaded together (and with important delay) reveals that lately we have been facing some technical difficulties that require solutions.

First, there are some problems with the distribution lists of the 24-hours system. Some people do not receive the announcements, although their email addresses appear correctly registered in the distribution list. At the Organizing Committee we are working together with the people at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) to try to solve the problems and find a more stable solution.

Second, normally the Newsletter gets created by executing a script on the server with 24-hour announcement database, but we are having communication problems with the server at UNAM. Currently, the problems have only been partially solved, and in fact the 2018 issues have been created manually, something that is very time consuming.

We are now seeking help from our community members who have the skills and the time to help us resolve these issues.
If you are one of those persons and wish to participate, please contact Jose Groh (jose.groh-at-tcd.ie).

Also, if you know of someone subscribed to the 24-hour system but not receiving it, please let us know through Asif ud-Doula at asif-at-psu.edu.

I would like here to thank all involved persons for their efforts and time dedicated to this matter of crucial interest to our community and invite any interested and skilled member of our community to participate in the task of keeping the Newsletter and the 24-hour system running efficiently.


With best regards,
Artemio Herrero, president, on behalf of the Organizing Committee of the Massive Star Commission

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Email: ahd@iac.es