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'''Audiobridge Phone No.: 617-452-5190'''
'''Audiobridge Phone No.: 617-452-5190'''


To participate in the meeting, call the above number a little before 12pm EST.  You should be connected in to the conference call. Apologies that this requires you to call in, but this is how the audiobridge system works at MIT.
To participate in the meeting, call the above number a little before 12pm EDT.  You should be connected in to the conference call. Apologies that this requires you to call in, but this is how the audiobridge system works at MIT.


==Agenda==
==Agenda/Post-meeting notes in bold==


*'''Software Development''': [[Alex Mallet]]
*'''Software Development''': [[Alex Mallet]]
**Any progress putting [[Eric Patridge|Eric's]] journal abbreviations on OWW? ([[Eric Patridge]], [[Austin Che]])
**Any progress putting [[Eric Patridge|Eric's]] journal abbreviations on OWW? ([[Eric Patridge]], [[Austin Che]])
***'''Waiting to hear from Eric.'''
*'''Community Development''': [[Sri Kosuri]]
*'''Community Development''': [[Sri Kosuri]]
**Open Science seminar series - [http://plosone.org PLoS One speaker?]
**Open Science seminar series - [http://plosone.org PLoS One speaker?]
***'''Confirmed Chris Surridge (likely in September)'''
*'''Advertising''': [[Ty Thomson]]
*'''Advertising''': [[Ty Thomson]]
**Should we write a paper/editorial like [http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040199 this]? [[Jason Kelly]]
**Should we write a paper/editorial like [http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040199 this]? [[Jason Kelly]]
***'''Discussion about this [[OpenWetWare:Community development/Article or editorial in a journal|here.]]'''
*'''User Experience/Data Management''': [[Jeff Gritton]] & [[Barry Canton]]
*'''User Experience/Data Management''': [[Jeff Gritton]] & [[Barry Canton]]
**Update on the [[OpenWetWare:Information management/Standard protocol submission/Meeting - 7/6/06|Standard protocol meeting]] [[Jenny Nguyen]]
**Update on the [[OpenWetWare:Information management/Standard protocol submission/Meeting - 7/6/06|Standard protocol meeting]] [[Jenny Nguyen]]
***'''Discussion on [[OpenWetWare:Information management/Standard protocol submission|how best to categorize pages]]
**Article naming conventions: ([[Help:Page naming conventions|here]],[[Help:Renaming pages|here]],[[Help:Reverting edits|here]]) - nice work Reshma, Kathleen, others.
**Article naming conventions: ([[Help:Page naming conventions|here]],[[Help:Renaming pages|here]],[[Help:Reverting edits|here]]) - nice work Reshma, Kathleen, others.
**[[About me template]] - nice work [[User:Yeem|mike]], others
**[[About me template]] - nice work [[User:Yeem|mike]], others
*'''Education Coordinator''': [[Reshma Shetty]]
*'''Education Coordinator''': [[Reshma Shetty]]
*'''Lab highlights''': [[John Cumbers]]
*'''Lab highlights''': [[John Cumbers]]
**Video on the front page? -- awesome video by the way.
**Video on the front page? -- awesome video by the way. '''Video on front page approved, action item below.'''
*'''Funding''':
*'''Funding''':
**[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/NSF BDI Grant|NSF Grant Finished - thanks everyone!]] - [[Jason Kelly]]
**[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/NSF BDI Grant|NSF Grant Finished - thanks everyone!]] - [[Jason Kelly]]
**Non-profit status, a good idea? [[Sriram Kosuri]]
**Non-profit status, a good idea? [[Sriram Kosuri]] '''Not at the moment, would like to remain under MIT's umbrella.'''
**NPG offer, long term plans, etc [[Drew Endy]]
**iCampus further funding request for establishing formal decision making / SC org /etc by Dec 31 - [[Jason Kelly]],[[Jeff Gritton]] '''[[Jason Kelly|Jason]] looking into who would help us with this, and we will be discussing it at the retreat.'''
**NPG offer, long term plans, etc (see Retreat Planning below) [[Drew Endy]] '''Holding on NPG until after the retreat.'''


*'''Other''':  
*'''Other''':  
**T-shirt needs a [[OpenWetWare:Design/T-shirt|slogan]] ([[Jenny Nguyen|Jenny]], [[Jason Kelly|Jason]])
**T-shirt needs a [[OpenWetWare:Design/T-shirt|slogan]] ([[Jenny Nguyen|Jenny]], [[Jason Kelly|Jason]])
**science foo camp [[Jason Kelly]]
*'''Retreat Planning''' [[Drew Endy]]:
**What is OpenWetWare?
***Online Notebook?
***Collaborative Research?
***Collaborative Education?
***Novel Research Publishing Channel?
***Other?
**What are our goals?
***Survival of the organism
***OK, done, now what?
**What isn't OWW?
**What is the best path forward?
**[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Long term planning discussion|Notes from previous meeting on this topic]]


==Action List! ;)==
==Action List! ;)==
 
''Don't have my notes with me unfortunately, so please add if I missed something.''
#Comment on the [[OpenWetWare steering committee/SC retreat|retreat agenda]]. (EVERYONE)
#Put the video (or picture link to video) on the Main Page, but make sure video works with IE. ([[John Cumbers]])
#Look into who we would hire/ask to help us put in place [[OpenWetWare steering committee/SC retreat|formal decision making processes and organizational structure.]] ([[Jason Kelly]])
#Put a page listing all the suggested categories up on the protocols page. ([[Jenny Nguyen]])
#Write [[Jennyn lab page activate|letter to labs with empty homepages]] ([[Jenny Nguyen]])


==Discussions==
==Discussions==
''These are discussion topics brought up during the last meeting, that will be continued on the wiki.  Each heading links to a discussion on the topic.  Will update after this meeting with new dicussions / remove completed discussions.''
''These are discussion topics brought up during the last meeting, that will be continued on the wiki.  Each heading links to a discussion on the topic.  Will update after this meeting with new dicussions / remove completed discussions.''
 
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Community development/Article or editorial in a journal]]'''
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Community development/Removing Inactive Sites]]'''
**Should we write up and submit an article to a journal to expose OWW to more scientists? and push the agenda of sharing scientific information more broadly on the web?
**Plan to move inactive sites from the main page
*'''[[Jennyn lab page activate|Letter to labs with empty homepages]]'''
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Community development/Advertising]]'''  
**Draft of letter for moving empty sites from the main page
**Google Adwords was suggested by [[Jason Kelly|Jason]], with the concern that we might not have the infrastructure to deal with a significant uptick in new users.
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Community development/New user experience]]'''
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Community development/New user experience]]'''
**What should the new user experience look like?  Should we have a “welcoming committee”?
**What should the new user experience look like?  Should we have a “welcoming committee”?
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Software/Site analytics]]'''
**This would provide more information for making decisions about site organization.  Could be a feature we provide to labs, as well as something we use ourselves to help for re-organizing pages (e.g., the main page).  It also may raise privacy concerns, or be an unnecessary technical addition to the site back-end.  Discussion needed to resolve this.
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Information management/Article naming conventions]]'''
**The current plan is to include a section better explaining namesapces in the OWW getting started pages (currently it is in the Etiquette section)
**[[Tom Knight|Tom]] also suggested that the issue could be technically solved by making page moving easier (specifically, getting links on OWW to be remapped to the new page)
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Information management/Standard protocol submission]]'''
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Information management/Standard protocol submission]]'''
**Discussion templates and ways to standardize protocol submissions for easy access and readability.
**What sort of tags or categories would work best?
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Software/iHOP]] and [[OpenWetWare:Software/BRENDA]]'''
**How to integrate with OWW? ([[Eric Patridge|Eric]], maybe you can kick off these discussions.)
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Design/T-shirt]]'''
*'''[[OpenWetWare:Design/T-shirt]]'''
**T-shirt designs/slogans.
**T-shirt designs/slogans.

Revision as of 14:34, 14 July 2006

Time/Location

  • Time : 12-1pm EST, 7/13/06
  • Room : 32-262 (Stata center)

To Conference Call:

Audiobridge Phone No.: 617-452-5190

To participate in the meeting, call the above number a little before 12pm EDT. You should be connected in to the conference call. Apologies that this requires you to call in, but this is how the audiobridge system works at MIT.

Agenda/Post-meeting notes in bold

Action List! ;)

Don't have my notes with me unfortunately, so please add if I missed something.

  1. Comment on the retreat agenda. (EVERYONE)
  2. Put the video (or picture link to video) on the Main Page, but make sure video works with IE. (John Cumbers)
  3. Look into who we would hire/ask to help us put in place formal decision making processes and organizational structure. (Jason Kelly)
  4. Put a page listing all the suggested categories up on the protocols page. (Jenny Nguyen)
  5. Write letter to labs with empty homepages (Jenny Nguyen)

Discussions

These are discussion topics brought up during the last meeting, that will be continued on the wiki. Each heading links to a discussion on the topic. Will update after this meeting with new dicussions / remove completed discussions.

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