OpenWetWare:Steering committee action archive

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.
• 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)
  • OWW community category
• 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)
  • OWW community category
• 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)

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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.