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SLACK_000975 [Kristian Andersen] Let's. Do you have a Slack channel set up? We should have Laura and Karthik join on our side [Andrew Rambaut] I can do a slack share link into the Pango Slack [Kristian Andersen] Cool - that'd be great [Andrew Rambaut] Can you give me their email addresses here? [Andrew Rambaut] Which email do you use for slack? [Kristian Andersen] [Kristian Andersen] Laura/Karthik might suggest a couple of others join too, but this is the core team. [Andrew Rambaut] OK. Easily done. Invitations sent. [Andrew Rambaut] By the way, WHO is planning to call them 'alpha', 'beta', 'gamma' etc. which is probably a good a system as any but we could still influence this. [Andrew Rambaut] I hate the PHE names because they look so similar. [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, alpha, beta, gamma could work - we talked about the need for different "levels" and the ability to move between groups (e.g., "CA" variant moving from VOC (which it should never have been...) down to a lower classification). The PHE names are indeed bad - I always have to cross-reference back to the table also displaying the pangolin names (but as you say, we need to label constellations, not necessarily lineages). [Andrew Rambaut] Yes - that is what we can put in the JSON definition files. We could have current PHE classification, WHO, CDC etc. Linking to lineages (possibly more than one - but probably not) where it is found.