Discussion journal of the Mössbauer Community

[Nagy Denes Lajos <nagy AT rmki.kfki.hu>]

Dear Colleagues,

as a step towards using new communication facilities and possibilities 
offered by the Web 2.0 technology, a test version of the social network of 
all Mössbauer spectroscopists, viz. the Facebook group

          International Mössbauer Community - MIX@FB

has been created. In the construction and test phase, IMC will be a secret 
group, i.e., only members see the group, who is in it, and what members 
post.

If you are already on Facebook, please visit the group and ask for 
membership at

     http://www.facebook.com/groups/mossbauer/

Should you not yet be on Facebook, please consider joining it (by properly 
setting your parameters, you will be able to protect your privacy).

Besides members, I am looking for volunteers who are willing to test and 
develop the group page, extend it with posts, events, documents, pictures, 
videos, etc. and, even more importantly, come up with ideas. Those 
volunteering please contact me at nagy AT rmki.kfki.hu.

You will find the full description of the group after this mail.

With best regards,

              Denes L. Nagy

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DESCRIPTION

The International Mössbauer Community (IMC) is a group created by the 
International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (IBAME). 
IMC aims at directly connecting all Mössbauer spectroscopists of the 
world. "Mössbauer spectroscopy includes laboratory Mössbauer spectroscopy, 
elastic and inelastic nuclear resonance scattering of synchrotron 
radiation (NRS and NIS), synchrotron radiation perturbed angular 
correlation (SRPAC) as well as other related techniques and theories. The 
group will host and disseminate information on highlights, conferences, 
schools, workshops, programs, instrumentation of the field. In this sense, 
IMC is the successor of MIX, the Mössbauer Information Exchange, a project 
dating back to 1992. However, in contrast to the traditional approach of 
MIX, IMC is a social network based on Web 2.0 principles; the members of 
IMC will shape the group and its content. Therefore, IMC is nothing but 
"MIX on Facebook" or, abbreviated, MIX@FB.

Members of IMC may create further thematic and action groups under the 
auspices of IMC provided that the purpose and the scope of such groups 
accords with those of IMC and that the IMC page and the new group page are 
mutually displayed on each other. Matters of dispute will be decided by 
IBAME.

All Mössbauer spectroscopists are invited to join IMC. However, to keep a 
high professional level of the Community, only administrators can approve 
requests to join the group. You may certainly apply for the IMC membership 
simply asking for joining the group. In this case your application will be 
refereed by IBAME who, in case of doubt, may ask for additional evidence 
of your professional quality (list of publications, etc.). However, you 
may preferably approach a member of IBAME to support your application. 
Should your application be submitted by an IBAME member (i.e., he or she 
will ask for adding you to the group) this request will be approved 
without any further inquiry.

In the construction and test phase, IMC will be a secret group, i.e., only 
members see the group, who is in it, and what members post. After a couple 
of weeks, the group will become closed, which means that anyone will be 
able to see the group, who's in it, however only members will see posts. 
At a later stage, an additional public page of IMC containing public 
information of the Community will be set up, nevertheless the Facebook 
group will retain closed.

At the moment, IMC is not more than a Facebook group, i.e. no legal entity 
like a society is behind. Consequently, IMC membership is free. After some 
time, the foundation of a society with well-defined services and 
membership fee may be considered, an issue that, among many others, may be 
discussed in the IMC group.