OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - July 2006

Time/Location

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

To Conference Call:

Audiobridge Phone No.: Coming Soon

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.

Agenda

• Software Development: Alex Mallet
  • Look into putting Eric's journal abbreviations on OWW. (Eric Patridge, Austin Che)
• Community Development: Sri Kosuri
  • Open Science seminar series - PLoS?
• Advertising: Ty Thomson
  • Should we write a paper/editorial like this? Jason Kelly
• User Experience/Data Management: Jeff Gritton & Barry Canton
  • Update on the Standard protocol meeting Jenny Nguyen
  • Article naming conventions: (here,here,here) - nice work Reshma, Kathleen, others.
  • About me template - nice work mike, others
• Education Coordinator: Reshma Shetty
• Lab highlights: John Cumbers
  • Video on the front page? -- awesome video by the way.
• Funding:
  • NSF Grant Finished - thanks everyone! - Jason Kelly
  • Non-profit status, a good idea? Sriram Kosuri
  • NPG offer, long term plans, etc Drew Endy

• Other:
  • T-shirt needs a slogan (Jenny, Jason)

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/Removing Inactive Sites
  • Plan to move inactive sites from the main page
• OpenWetWare:Community development/Advertising
  • Google Adwords was suggested by 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
  • 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 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
  • Discussion templates and ways to standardize protocol submissions for easy access and readability.
• OpenWetWare:Software/iHOP and OpenWetWare:Software/BRENDA
  • How to integrate with OWW? (Eric, maybe you can kick off these discussions.)
• OpenWetWare:Design/T-shirt
  • T-shirt designs/slogans.