OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Goals
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#Encourage the growth of (a wide variety) of communities on OWW | #Encourage the growth of (a wide variety) of communities on OWW | ||
#*The reasoning here is that the most important thing is to continue to build a critical mass of users who are comfortable using the site in their daily research. Then if we want to role out more complicated things in the future we’ve got a user base to actually try them out with (and a userbase to suggest/develop new things in the first place). I think Jay's point at the retreat about wikis being included in OS 12, and the follow up discussion about how OWW is not principally a tool site supports this focus - the strength of OWW will be in the community of users that we've grown. | #*The reasoning here is that the most important thing is to continue to build a critical mass of users who are comfortable using the site in their daily research. Then if we want to role out more complicated things in the future we’ve got a user base to actually try them out with (and a userbase to suggest/develop new things in the first place). I think Jay's point at the retreat about wikis being included in OS 12, and the follow up discussion about how OWW is not principally a tool site supports this focus - the strength of OWW will be in the community of users that we've grown. | ||
| - | + | #*List of communities that would fit on OWW and brief examples of projects we could prioritize in support of them. | |
| + | #*#Labs | ||
| + | #*#*tutorial for adding custom recent changes for your lab | ||
| + | #*#Courses | ||
| + | #*#Research fields (e.g. fanconi anemia, synthetic biology) | ||
| + | #*#*Improved discussion areas? | ||
| + | #*#*Lab RSS feeds | ||
| + | #*#Institutions | ||
| + | #*#*Could build up the MIT isntitution page (e.g. list all shared equipment, etc) as an example for other institutions to model after | ||
| + | #*#Resource Centers (e.g. MIT flow facility, Caltech Microfluidic Foundry) | ||
| + | #*#*Provides a great opportunity for the user community of one of a resource center to troubleshoot and interact with the employees of the center. The caltech foundry has already expressed some interest in this, and I think it would be a great fit for the MIT flow facility as well. | ||
==Medium term goals== | ==Medium term goals== | ||
Revision as of 03:17, 9 August 2006
- Jasonk 03:09, 9 August 2006 (EDT): At the retreat we decided that the steering committee would be responsible for prioritizing the areas where OWW would expend resources (whether time or $). To serve this I think we need to have a list of short-term goals. (and probably a long-term vision as well)
- Since we are putting in place an organizational structure for the next 6 months, it seems like that is a good time frame for some short term goals.
Short term goals
- Define a long-term organizational structure for OWW leadership. The new structure will be decided upon in December, and new officers will be elected in January.
- Encourage the growth of (a wide variety) of communities on OWW
- The reasoning here is that the most important thing is to continue to build a critical mass of users who are comfortable using the site in their daily research. Then if we want to role out more complicated things in the future we’ve got a user base to actually try them out with (and a userbase to suggest/develop new things in the first place). I think Jay's point at the retreat about wikis being included in OS 12, and the follow up discussion about how OWW is not principally a tool site supports this focus - the strength of OWW will be in the community of users that we've grown.
- List of communities that would fit on OWW and brief examples of projects we could prioritize in support of them.
- Labs
- tutorial for adding custom recent changes for your lab
- Courses
- Research fields (e.g. fanconi anemia, synthetic biology)
- Improved discussion areas?
- Lab RSS feeds
- Institutions
- Could build up the MIT isntitution page (e.g. list all shared equipment, etc) as an example for other institutions to model after
- Resource Centers (e.g. MIT flow facility, Caltech Microfluidic Foundry)
- Provides a great opportunity for the user community of one of a resource center to troubleshoot and interact with the employees of the center. The caltech foundry has already expressed some interest in this, and I think it would be a great fit for the MIT flow facility as well.
- Labs
