OpenWetWare:Steering committee action archive

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)

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)

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)

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)

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.

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.