[NLPL Task Force (A)] look up active users on NLPL projects

[Martin Matthiesen]

Hi Stephan, 

> From: "Stephan Oepen" <oe at ifi.uio.no>
> To: "Martin Matthiesen" <martin.matthiesen at csc.fi>
> Cc: "infrastructure" <infrastructure at nlpl.eu>
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 October, 2018 16:22:35
> Subject: look up active users on NLPL projects

> hi martin, and all,

> we have had a mailing list ‘ [ mailto:users at nlpl.eu | users at nlpl.eu ] ’ for some
> time, but we still need to define who our user base actually is.

> i suggest everyone with access to NLPL allocations is considered an NLPL user,
> probably also users on the CSC projects that jörg and filip manage. does that
> sound reasonable? i doubt our ‘users’ mailing list will see a lot of traffic.

I think that sounds reasonable. 

> on Abel, i now automatically extract active NLPL users based on project
> association in a system-wide ‘user-info’ database of sorts; please see:

> [ http://svn.nlpl.eu/operation/users/ | http://svn.nlpl.eu/operation/users/ ]

> not sure whether the ‘user-info’ file is a general SLURM mechanism, but either
> way i wanted to ask whether you could provide a similar script, to be run by
> cron(1) every night, to extract email adresses for active users on all NLPL
> projects?

Yes, that is possible. Ideally I should not add anyone to the mix, since there should be an almost perfect overlap? ;-) There will be a lot of travel the next 2 weeks (CLARIN yearly meeting next week and personal autumn holiday the week after, so it might take a little while. I have a crude idea on how to do this, but our user management might know a more elegant solution. 

There is the GDPR, though, maybe not everyone wants to be automatically added to that list. Hardly a problem now, but we might want to prepare for that. The Language Bankl has several hundred users that use Taito's resources, I wonder whether we should send them an "opt-in" mail? Or would that be too big an increase? My guess is most users are not AI/ML-minded people. 

I made myself a Jira-ticket for this, initial deadline end of this month. 

Regards, 
Martin 

> with thanks in advance! oe
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