OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - July 2007

SC Reports

Brief reports on the month's activity should be written by each chair 2 days before the SC meeting. At the meeting each chair will bring up any open issues that require discussion, but won't need to recount everything described below.

Analytics

I'm currently out of office, and haven't had time to prepare the stats for June. Thanks for everyones input on the distilled statistics, I'll summarize it on the wiki shortly.

I will probably not have the time available over the summer to hack the perl scripts to produce this limited version of the stats automatically (I'm currently writing my PhD thesis...). I'll try to evaluate how much work it may be for the next SC meeting though. Maybe this could be considered to be put on the list for the new developer, including automatic updates of stats onto OWW.

[Unfortunately I'm also double booked for the time of the SC meeting, but I'll try my best to make it].

--Mattias 09:10, 12 July 2007 (EDT)

Coordinator

• Held meeting to discuss the new accounts policy, settled on a standard approach for approving accounts.
• OpenWetWare blogs are up thanks to ilya and jenny.

News and highlights

• new this month:

Hoatlin lab highlight (up ~6/15)

Brown iGEM video (up 7/11)

• on deck:

Austin's extensions (could go in current video highlight slot, which is overdue to get swapped out)

>> can someone make/suggest the OWW page to highlight and either post it or send me the link?

Lab highlight should probably get swapped before the end of the month

>> any suggestions (preferably non-MIT)?

• future:

20.109(F07) Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering class highlight this fall

other nominations??

Publishing

• Discussion of Elsevier inclusion of citation index
• Discussion of interactions with other publishers