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=Time/Location= | |||
*Friday, 1/6/06 : 1:00-2:00 | |||
*Location: MIT, room 68-574 | |||
=Agenda= | =Agenda= | ||
#Revised budget to match 18.5K (30K minus overhead) | #Revised budget to match 18.5K (30K minus overhead) | ||
#*Will need to allocate money prior to a review in March/April where we could recieve additional funding. | #*Will need to allocate money prior to a review in March/April where we could recieve additional funding. | ||
#*[[OpenWetWare_steering_committee#Budget| | #*Current Budget [[OpenWetWare_steering_committee#Budget| (detailed)]]: | ||
#**UROPS: 12K | |||
#**Advertising: 2K | |||
#**Travel: 5K | |||
#**Boston-area Tutorials: 1K | |||
#**OWW Seminar Series: 10K | |||
#Sub-committee leaders | #Sub-committee leaders | ||
#*Do we want to keep the same leaders as were assigned for the iCampus meeting? | #*Do we want to keep the same leaders as were [[OpenWetWare_steering_committee#Sub-Committee_Leaders|assigned]] for the iCampus meeting? | ||
#**Finances:[[Jason Kelly]] | |||
#**Timeline Manager:[[Danielle France]] | |||
#**Software Development:[[Barry Canton]] | |||
#**Community Development/Advertising:[[Sri Kosuri]] | |||
#**User Experience/Data Management:[[Jeff Gritton]] | |||
#**Education Coordinator:[[Reshma Shetty]] | |||
#Sub-committee goals for IAP | #Sub-committee goals for IAP | ||
#*Update the timeline, and specify tasks for each sub-committee to be accomplished before next meeting. | #*Update the [[OpenWetWare_steering_committee#Timeline|timeline]], and specify tasks for each sub-committee to be accomplished before next meeting. | ||
#Procedural | #Procedural | ||
#*Meeting time/frequency | #*Meeting time/frequency | ||
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#*Email lists | #*Email lists | ||
#**Should admin/steering committee be same list? | #**Should admin/steering committee be same list? | ||
#Open discussion | |||
[[OpenWetWare steering committee/Suggestions]] | |||
=Notes= | |||
#Budget | |||
#*The budget was revised: | |||
#**UROPS: 7K | |||
#***2 Spring UROPs and a Summer UROP | |||
#**Advertising: 2K | |||
#***Artist to design materials (1K), mailings/business cards/etc (1K) | |||
#**Travel: 2K | |||
#**Boston-area Tutorials: 0.5K | |||
#**OWW Seminar Series: 7K | |||
#Sub-committee leaders | |||
#*These will stay the same, except we split Community/Advertising into two seperate positions, Sri will remain as Community and Ty will be Advertising. | |||
#Sub-committee goals for IAP | |||
#*'''Finances:''' | |||
#**get the budget approved by iCampus, set up the account ([[Jason Kelly]]) | |||
#*'''Software Development:''' | |||
#**UROP advertisement ([[Alex Mallet]]) | |||
#*'''Community Development:''' | |||
#**Potential speaker list for open science seminar series ([[Sri Kosuri]]) | |||
#**There was some debate over the usefulness of the seminar series, some reasons given in support were: | |||
#**#Slide about OWW to be mentioned during introduction of the speaker | |||
#**#Advertising via linking to videos of the seminar through the site. | |||
#**#The speaker is forced to admit the existence of OWW | |||
#**#Great speakers would be good educational experience and advance the overall goals of OWW of increasing openess in science. | |||
#**Tutorial session for the MIT community ([[Jason Kelly]]) | |||
#***Jeff suggested that we do a good job of this and video it. Then we can have a video presenation with slide show available for download for people wanting to find out about the site via the web. | |||
#*'''Advertising''' | |||
#**Look into hiring an artist to design logo, etc ([[Ty Thomson]]) | |||
#**Advertisement before Biology Colloquim was suggested. | |||
#**Presentation at BE or Biology Retreats. | |||
#*'''User Experience/Data Management''':([[Jeff Gritton]] & [[Barry Canton]]) | |||
#**Drew suggested we spend time developing a strategy to encourage the growth of 'back-end' users in order to ensure number of dedicated editors (quality-checkers) scales with the user base. | |||
#**One suggestion was to build out the [[OpenWetWare:Community Portal]], using wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_portal community portal] as an example. | |||
#**Natalie suggested talking to the iGEM teams about their experience with the iGEM wiki, since there was a number of groups who didn't like it -- should be a good source of feedback for us. (Also, could use these contacts to recruit new labs to OWW) | |||
#Procedural | |||
#*Next meeting will be in ~2 weeks date/time TBA | |||
#*Making new email lists | |||
#**admin -- inquiries from public, requests for accounts, etc. | |||
#**steering_committee -- discussion of back-end type stuff | |||
#**announce -- annoucements list |
Latest revision as of 11:55, 29 March 2006
Time/Location
- Friday, 1/6/06 : 1:00-2:00
- Location: MIT, room 68-574
Agenda
- Revised budget to match 18.5K (30K minus overhead)
- Will need to allocate money prior to a review in March/April where we could recieve additional funding.
- Current Budget (detailed):
- UROPS: 12K
- Advertising: 2K
- Travel: 5K
- Boston-area Tutorials: 1K
- OWW Seminar Series: 10K
- Sub-committee leaders
- Do we want to keep the same leaders as were assigned for the iCampus meeting?
- Finances:Jason Kelly
- Timeline Manager:Danielle France
- Software Development:Barry Canton
- Community Development/Advertising:Sri Kosuri
- User Experience/Data Management:Jeff Gritton
- Education Coordinator:Reshma Shetty
- Do we want to keep the same leaders as were assigned for the iCampus meeting?
- Sub-committee goals for IAP
- Update the timeline, and specify tasks for each sub-committee to be accomplished before next meeting.
- Procedural
- Meeting time/frequency
- Lunch meetings, once or twice a month?
- Email lists
- Should admin/steering committee be same list?
- Meeting time/frequency
- Open discussion
OpenWetWare steering committee/Suggestions
Notes
- Budget
- The budget was revised:
- UROPS: 7K
- 2 Spring UROPs and a Summer UROP
- Advertising: 2K
- Artist to design materials (1K), mailings/business cards/etc (1K)
- Travel: 2K
- Boston-area Tutorials: 0.5K
- OWW Seminar Series: 7K
- UROPS: 7K
- The budget was revised:
- Sub-committee leaders
- These will stay the same, except we split Community/Advertising into two seperate positions, Sri will remain as Community and Ty will be Advertising.
- Sub-committee goals for IAP
- Finances:
- get the budget approved by iCampus, set up the account (Jason Kelly)
- Software Development:
- UROP advertisement (Alex Mallet)
- Community Development:
- Potential speaker list for open science seminar series (Sri Kosuri)
- There was some debate over the usefulness of the seminar series, some reasons given in support were:
- Slide about OWW to be mentioned during introduction of the speaker
- Advertising via linking to videos of the seminar through the site.
- The speaker is forced to admit the existence of OWW
- Great speakers would be good educational experience and advance the overall goals of OWW of increasing openess in science.
- Tutorial session for the MIT community (Jason Kelly)
- Jeff suggested that we do a good job of this and video it. Then we can have a video presenation with slide show available for download for people wanting to find out about the site via the web.
- Advertising
- Look into hiring an artist to design logo, etc (Ty Thomson)
- Advertisement before Biology Colloquim was suggested.
- Presentation at BE or Biology Retreats.
- User Experience/Data Management:(Jeff Gritton & Barry Canton)
- Drew suggested we spend time developing a strategy to encourage the growth of 'back-end' users in order to ensure number of dedicated editors (quality-checkers) scales with the user base.
- One suggestion was to build out the OpenWetWare:Community Portal, using wikipedia's community portal as an example.
- Natalie suggested talking to the iGEM teams about their experience with the iGEM wiki, since there was a number of groups who didn't like it -- should be a good source of feedback for us. (Also, could use these contacts to recruit new labs to OWW)
- Finances:
- Procedural
- Next meeting will be in ~2 weeks date/time TBA
- Making new email lists
- admin -- inquiries from public, requests for accounts, etc.
- steering_committee -- discussion of back-end type stuff
- announce -- annoucements list