OpenWetWare steering committee/Community development ideas

• Several non-OWW people have contacted me (and others) with regard to protocols on OWW. All have said they found the site useful, but I have yet to recruit any to join OWW. I think it may be a good idea to come up with a short, standardized "recruitment" letter to send to these people. I feel that they are already part of the way there in that they found helpful info on the site, so hopefully we can come up with a way for them to join and start participating. This may also be useful for current OWWers to send to colleagues/friends they think may be interested.--Kathleen 21:49, 5 February 2006 (EST)

• An improved OpenWetWare:Community Portal would go a long way towards encouraging the growth of the "back-end" user community. We could use the wikipedia community portal as a model.