OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - December 2006

Notes

Random

Bunch of short discussions leading to this month's action list Longer discussions noted below.

Private pages

Austin has developed the subwiki extension, which would allow us to pretty easily implement "private pages" on OWW. This takes away the "not technically feasible" excuse that we've used previously to avoid the issue ;) So we spent awhile debating the pros/cons of allowing private pages. The eventual consensus was that it was worth giving them a try provided it was for a small subgroup to begin with as a trial, under the assumption that in the end it would lead to a higher level of contribution to OWW due to:

1. its another service OWW provides which will draw more new signups / more frequent use by existing #people digitizing information in a compatible format earlier (e.g. lab notebooks or stuff they might not put on OWW immediately) will lead to more of that information getting released eventually.

We'll try and keep an eye on the trial to see if this plays out.