Speaker
Dr
Douglas Smith
(STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)
Description
In the increasingly distributed collaborations of today's experiments, there is a
need to bring people together and manage all discussions. The main ways for doing
this on-line are the use of e-mail or web forums. HyperNews is a discussion
management system which bridges these two, by including the use of e-mail for input,
but also archiving the discussions in easy to access web pages. The discussions are
divided into separate forums, and within these forums the discussions are divided
into threads, allowing for rapidly finding a discussion and seeing how the discussion
progressed. A search engine has also been added to the system to provide for fast
access of appropriate postings based on content. This system has been in constant use
for the past nine years in the BaBar experiment, and has archived discussions during
this time in a quarter of a million postings. The experience of BaBar has shown that
such a system is needed for current experiments -- to increase communication; archive
discussions; and provide information. New deployments of HyperNews continue,
including strong interest and deployments by LHC experiments. Experiences on the use
of the system will be discussed, and information on the use of the system for any
experiment will be provided. For more information and to download code for use see:
http://hypernews.slac.stanford.edu.
Primary author
Dr
Douglas Smith
(STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)
Co-authors
Dr
Peter Elmer
(Princeton University)
Dr
Terry Hung
(STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)
