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==8/2/07 Meeting== | |||
*Future of scientific publishing / relationship with OWW blog post for the SC blog (john) | |||
**postponed until blog actually got up ;) | |||
*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Awards]] - suggest possible awards here; we'll be nominating people at the next SC meeting (everyone). | |||
*discuss [[OpenWetWare:Language standard]] (natalie, others) | |||
**Beef up the disclaimer on the site (barry, jeff) | |||
===Completed=== | |||
*Austin highlight (jen) | |||
**Possible screencast (mac) -- didn't end up doing | |||
*Follow up with Scopus (john) -- still in progress | |||
*[[OpenWetWare:Feature list|prioritized feature list]] - flesh out features and sign up for ones you'd like to help with (everyone) | |||
*Distilled statistics (Mattias) -- we have the list | |||
*Implement survey on an online form, send to SC to try it out (lucks) | |||
==7/12/07 Meeting== | ==7/12/07 Meeting== | ||
*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Awards]] - suggest possible awards here; we'll be nominating people at the next SC meeting (everyone). | *[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Awards]] - suggest possible awards here; we'll be nominating people at the next SC meeting (everyone). |
Revision as of 12:52, 2 August 2007
8/2/07 Meeting
- Future of scientific publishing / relationship with OWW blog post for the SC blog (john)
- postponed until blog actually got up ;)
- OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Awards - suggest possible awards here; we'll be nominating people at the next SC meeting (everyone).
- discuss OpenWetWare:Language standard (natalie, others)
- Beef up the disclaimer on the site (barry, jeff)
Completed
- Austin highlight (jen)
- Possible screencast (mac) -- didn't end up doing
- Follow up with Scopus (john) -- still in progress
- prioritized feature list - flesh out features and sign up for ones you'd like to help with (everyone)
- Distilled statistics (Mattias) -- we have the list
- Implement survey on an online form, send to SC to try it out (lucks)
7/12/07 Meeting
- OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Awards - suggest possible awards here; we'll be nominating people at the next SC meeting (everyone).
- Distilled statistics (Mattias)
- discuss OpenWetWare:Language standard (natalie, others)
- Beef up the disclaimer on the site (barry, jeff)
- best way to alphabetize autogenerated protocol page (reshma)
Completed
- last chance to comment on the survey questions (everyone, lucks/vincent)
- Post a comment on the What's new section so that people know not to post external links (jen) - done
- Set up the wordpress-MU, one of which will be the OWW steering committee blog, something akin to the digg blog with pictures of SC members, etc. (austin, ilya, mac)
- Jenny could help make the color scheme match the rest of OWW
- highlight hoatlin lab (jen)
- iGEM video highlight (jen, mac)
- change new user page to encourage new users to sign in with their email / are there any technical problems with this? (austin)
- organize meeting to discuss accounts policy (jason)
6/7/07 Meeting
- OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Awards - suggest possible awards here, that we could use to start building merit for contributions. (everyone).
- Try to decide at next meeting whether to have all the links on front page be on OWW or not. (jen)
- Set up an OWW steering committee blog, something akin to the digg blog with pictures of SC members, etc. (austin, ilya, mac)
- highlight hoatlin/silver labs (jen)
- iGEM video highlight (jen, mac)
- finalize survey questions (everyone, lucks/vincent)
- Discuss the username policy wrt using real names. (everyone)
- Screencasts(mac)
5/2/07 Meeting
tabled
- Pligg (John Cumbers) - report on whether this will work as a way to suggest cool articles and news.
- Austin will help to get the logins working with or without OpenID.
- Set up a custom skin that includes RSS feeds on main article pages and a google search (Ilya, Austin)
- Map with all the outreach folks' pictures (vincent)
- Create a 'what OWW is' document. (lucks, vincent)
- Survey of the current OWW 'demographics' (mattias, lucks, vincent)
- Recruit more outreach officers (mattias, lucks, everyone)
- Move any new software documentation to OpenWetWare:Software (Mac)
- Wikify upcoming BMC paper (sri)
- Create a single page which is the condensed feature list that the SC will need to prioritize (jason)
- Discuss how to prioritize such a list effectively.
completed
- Replace getting started link with help page link on main page.
- OpenWetWare:Reviews (jason, others) - try and get some reviews up.
- Fix the chat room situation (Reshma)
- All SC meeting chats will take place in this room.
- An intro page for new users to supplement the email.
- Set up news at openwetware mailing list and add links to the main page asking for content (jen)
- Send suggested cool pages to news at openwetware :) (everyone)
- Post materials to the Outreach chairs to start putting together standard recruiting materials (sri, everyone)
- Move relevant content from SC/Outreach to the community development outreach page -- you can still coordinate your activities on SC page, it's more for anything you want other people to plug into. (lucks, Vincent)
- Lucks 08:53, 5 April 2007 (EDT): We'll be moving content to that page once we get organized. For now we'll put some filler in.
- Move relevant content from SC/Outreach to the community development outreach page -- you can still coordinate your activities on SC page, it's more for anything you want other people to plug into. (lucks, Vincent)
- Put together a list of statistics that we'd like to have (work with software chairs to figure out what's feasible - e.g. most edits this month, etc) (Mattias)
- Consolidate the work of the new chairs onto the community portal areas. Like OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Software chairs to OpenWetWare:Software. (each chair)
- Revise the email to new users. (admin list members)
4/4/07 Meeting
- OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting time (everyone) - choose a new time for monthly meetings.
- Pligg (John Cumbers) - report on whether this will work as a way to suggest cool articles and news.
- OpenWetWare:Reviews (jason, others) - try and get some reviews up.
- promote the RecentChanges discussion page (moved into comm portal, Reshma)
- Install the extension for RSS feeds on all the pages (Ilya, Austin)
- Install the extension for syntax highlighting (Ilya, Austin)
3/09/07 Meeting
- Help to define the proposed new SC positions here. Once we have them fairly specified, seek volunteers to fill them. (everyone)
- Look into an in-wiki chat program (Austin)
- Discuss the web of OWW wikis idea here. (everyone)
2/16/07 Meeting
- Follow up with NSF about the grant revisions. (Drew)
- Page tagging/categorization (Vincent)
- update on iGEM 2007 on OWW (Jason)
- NIH position follow-up(sri)
- Talk to the Sorger lab about private wikis (Sri)
- Change the toolbar on the private wiki to include links to resources (materials, protocols) on OWW. (austin)
1/19/07 Meeting
- OpenWetWare:Respond to NSF (Drew)
- Email dspace about free DOIs (Reshma, contacted DSpace)
- Pilot the subwiki program (ilya,austin)
- Customize the toolbar to include materials/protocols link before release
- Publish to OWW button would be good too, but likely more technically challenging
- Page tagging/categorization (Vincent)
- update on iGEM 2007 on OWW (Jason)
- Submit job desciption to MIT jobs, OWW front page, NNB, Scilink, etc (sri)
- Set up a meeting with Jonathan Reese (Sri)
- Add link to how to sign up for OWW discuss list to the new user email and getting started page (Jenny)
- Add a weekly public dump of the OWW database (similar to how wikipedia does), so others can mine it/reuse (ilya)
12/14/06 Meeting
- Add link to how to sign up for OWW discuss list to the new user email
- Add link to how to sign up for OWW discuss list to the Getting Started page (Barry)
- Get some science writers signed up (sri/jason/reshma, anyone who knows a writer ;)
- Organize meeting about hiring someone with NIH funds (Jason)
- Discuss OpenWetWare Directory here (everyone)
- Demo video lab protocols (Tom/Sri)
- Discuss merits of a protocol 'editor' here (everyone)
- Submit the Nature methods article (James)
- Possibility of free DOI's from MIT (Reshma)
11/9/2006 Meeting
- Get some science journalists involved in the site (maybe as part of a course, etc)
- Post a highlight about it DONE
- Technical writing department @ MIT (Reshma will talk to Neal Lerner) - sent email, made blurb
- Freelance journalists (Sri)
- Austin Highlight (Everyone)
- Set up e-mailing list for oww-announce & oww-discuss (Sri)
- Discuss who to hire with NIH funds: Marketing, Infrustructure, or Technical Support (Everyone)
- Alternatives to reddit that accomplish the same sort of thing (Julian)
- How to put a box on the top of every page for big annoucements (a la what wikipedia does with its funding drives). (no one signed up for this yet)
- Sri Kosuri (talk) 14:44, 31 October 2006 (EST): The sitenotice message and the anonymous notice are methods to do this in mediawiki. We can place messages here that Monobook can take (we may have to edit our monobook a la wikipedia). I imagine we could put information up there for logged in users such as service interruptions... and non-logged in users, we can plea for them to apply for an account... any thoughts?
- Move Wilbanks lecture to front page (Sri) - DONE
- Move the site to Rackspace (ilya & austin) - DONE
- Post an announcement if there will be downtime.
- Get OWW content linkable from postgenomic (Jason) - DONE (see here)
10/12/2006 Meeting
- Setup a trial page of reddit when they release their software
- Highlights - Pam Silver (October), Austin's extensions
- New Spotlight! - BioSysBio
- Reduce the size of the front page
- Move the site to rackspace beginning of October (be sure to doublecheck the date with BSB conference deadlines).
- Chris Surridge - Exec. Editor of PLoS One. Need to plan his schedule for October 20th.
- Evaluate phpBB - integration discussion board
- Clean up the community portal so that it's easy for people to post new ideas and (preferably) to discuss and rank the priority of existing ideas.
- Make a similar list on the SC pages for 'SC-level' goals.
9/14/2006 Meeting
- Reddit trial. (cumbers, lucks)
- Make "Edit Sidebar" button for customization. (austin?)
- Jasonk 14:02, 3 September 2006 (EDT): I think we can just have this link be on the sidebar by default: edit your sidebar
- Vote on front page! (everyone)
- New front page is up.
- Finalize infrastructure strategy (Ilya, Sri, Jason)
- Jasonk 13:53, 3 September 2006 (EDT):Going with rackspace.com, waiting for MIT to approve the PO.
- Sri Kosuri (talk) 18:11, 11 September 2006 (EDT): Start date is probably tomorrow, latest Wednesday.
- When would be best time to do the site migration - e.g. not right before a BioSysBio deadline, for instance ;)
- Look over and comment on the list of SC goals.
- Add a 'Join OWW' link on the bottom of every page.
- Chris Surridge Visit
- Sri Kosuri (talk) 18:13, 11 September 2006 (EDT):Chris will arrive Thursday, October 19th, and we will have all of Friday with him (October 20th).
- BioSysBio update (john cumbers)
- highlights (john cumbers)
- Could we highlighthe BSB abstracts section? also coming up on 1500 users.