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Revision as of 13:45, 8 November 2005
The MIT-Microsoft Alliance has provided funds for the development of tools to help research in technology education. This page will be used to collaboratively develop an application for funds to push OWW to be a more useful tool. Please put your input below. This is still in the early draft stages, so please put ideas down.
Preliminary Student Proposal Questions
Title for this proposal
Give a short, descriptive title for this project
- OpenWetWare: A collaborative information tool for the biological research community
Name and email address of proposer
The proposer must be a registered MIT student (graduate or undergraduate). You must supply a valid email address that we can use to communicate with you. List only one address only. This person will be the point of contact for all communications about the proposal. This person also must be the person who mails in the proposal, with the correct FROM email address.
If other's would like to take the lead, speak now. Right now there is an operating assumption that no one really wants to take the lead on this proposal.
Project description
Please provide a brief (a few paragraphs at most) description of the proposed project.
- We should decide here if we should focus on developing a tool for biological information... or a more general tool for the MIT community... what do people think?
Significance
Describe, as succinctly and as compellingly as you can, why you think this project is significant - from an educational perspective, a technical perspective, or other.
Key participants
Who are the key participants in this project? What year are they at MIT? Will they all still be students through the fall semester 2006?
- Barry Canton -- 3rd year graduate student (will be a student in Fall 2006)
- Austin Che -- ?
- Jason Kelly -- 3rd year graduate student (will be a student in Fall 2006)
- Sriram Kosuri -- 5th year graduate student (unsure if he will be a student in Fall 2006)
- Reshma Shetty -- 4th year graduate student (will be a student in Fall 2006)
Add your name here
Goals for the spring
List two or three specific milestones to be achieved in the project by May 2006.
Goals for the one-year project
List two or three specific milestones to be achieved in the project by December 2006.
Funding
What kinds of things are you requesting funding for (e.g., what equipment, UROP positions, other)?
- I'm really not sure what money could be used for other than lots of advertising so people use OWW. --Austin Che
- Well, we'll see. We can list things that we think could help drive usage of the wiki
- Advertising
- Tool Development
- Automatic login for MIT Users
- Better tools to make websites from wiki pages. For an example, see here.
- Informational Development
- Informational pages specific to MIT.
- Questions and Answers areas.
- Tutorial Development
- Hardware/Support Funding
Advisor
Who is your project advisor?
- I nominate Drew if he is willing --Sri Kosuri 13:06, 8 Nov 2005 (EST)
Other
Any other comments or questions.
- What's the difference between student and faculty sponsored projects? I think faculty projects can get more money (not sure OWW needs it).
- This is true. But it would be nice to be driven by the students, and, as you point out, we probably don't need too much money.