How_to_send_an_announcement

Instructions for sending an announcement to the Cytoscape community. You generally want to do this if you have a new plugin to report, want to advertise the Cytoscape retreat or a new Cytoscape release.

Announcements are sent to the cytoscape-announce Google group. This list is moderated by a number of Cytoscape team members. Any message sent to this list, after moderation, will be forwarded to hundreds of Cytoscape users and will automatically appear on the cytoscape.org homepage after a short delay.

1. Send a message to cytoscape-announce@googlegroups.com. The message should be written concisely. A good subject is of the form "Announcing ...". The main points of the announcement should be in the first few sentences because only these will be displayed on cytoscape.org. A good example is:

   Subject: Announcing PhenotypeGenetics 2.0

   This Cytoscape 2.1 plug-in constructs genetic-interaction networks
   from large sets of phenotype measurements (continuous or discrete)
   from cells with single and pairwise genetic perturbations. Network
   derivation is generalized and fully computable. It also implements
   network-analysis methods to find local and global interaction patterns
   reflecting the effects of gene perturbations on biological processes
   and pathways.
   
   Released by: Galitski Lab at the Institute for Systems Biology
   
   Please see:
   http://cytoscape.org/plugins2.php
   for downloading and tutorial information.
   
   For more details, see publication:
   
   Becky L Drees, Vesteinn Thorsson, Gregory W Carter, Alexander W Rives,
   Marisa Z Raymond, Iliana Avila-Campillo, Paul Shannon and Timothy
   Galitski (2005). Derivation of genetic networks from quantitative
   phenotype data. Genome Biology. 6:R38.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&...
   
   -- 
   -iliana

2. A message will be sent to all list moderators asking them to approve the message. This might take a little while, depending on how busy the moderators are.
3. Once the moderator approves, the message will be sent to all list members and will appear on cytoscape.org. The 3 most recent announcements automatically appear on cytoscape.org

Notes

• If you are on the core team and want to be a list moderator, just ask. You will receive e-mails when people post to the list with a link allowing you to approve or deny posts.
• The PHP script homepage on cytoscape.org fetches the latest announcements from the Google group by RSS feed. MagpieRSS is used.