OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - September 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

• August site stats (PDF)

• Traffic (pageviews and session) is following the previously increasing trend that can be seen since beginning of 2006 (~600k sessions/month in August).
• The number of edits/month is pretty much the same for each month in 2007 as in 2006 (so far at least), and the same situation is true for the number of new articles produced.

• Summary: Upward trend in traffic over 2007, but stable trend in edits and number of new articles.

Coordinator

• First community blogger is active at http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen
  • Blogs also have a nice homepage now: http://blogs.openwetware.org/ (thanks to jenny). Feel free to make it better / provide comments on talk page here.
• Nature is considering doing a wiki-review and want advice / suggestions for how we could collaborate. (it needs to be hosted on nature.com, but they could allow OWW logins, for instance). Thoughts / suggestions?
  • Reshma suggested that reviews for wikis should be written differently to make them more accessible to contributors - more modular, more neutral point of view.
  • Julius asked that we push back on nature a bit about whether we could have links back to OWW-reviews, and that sort of thing. (e.g. how best to work together on this). If you have more thoughts email jason.
• Also, will ask Cumbers if he wants to look into talking with other publishers (maybe one focused on reviews) as to whether they'd like to work together on this.

News and highlights

• Maloof Lab (UCD) highlight posted 8/27
• Possible 20.109 class highlight coming...
  • Reshma 13:59, 5 September 2007 (EDT): We've done 20.109 before. How about PHYC500/2007F?
• suggestions/nominations, as always, welcome
  • BioNumbers - though I don't know if they plan to make the info freely available? It's in a google doc at the moment and only they can edit it...
  • Blogs? (depends if we are ready to offer them widely).

Software

• Reshma 11:58, 6 September 2007 (EDT): TK just requested hooks into the sequence databases via accession number (like Biblio does for Pubmed citations).
• Bill described backend work that he has been doing this month to set up a development server and to prepare us to move to faster servers on rackspace next week. He's also worked on re-vamping the new-user management system. Next month will likely be more community-side projects, so he'll be contacting folks who have expressed interests in the features he works on as well as posting updates to the wiki.

Publishing

• Elsevier investigating writing an extension for biblio to include the science direct citation count
• IET synthetic biology - plans for the journal

Board

• OpenWetWare:PLoS_community_page - leave feedback.
• We're beginning a search for a managing director for OWW -- if you know someone good please suggest them.