OpenWetWare talk:Community Portal

Suggested improvements

• Shorten significantly.
• Move the various discussions regarding OWW to here.
• Remove all the help items that are currently at the bottom of the page.
• Give greater prominence to the discussions and improve page navigability (is this a word?:)).
• Make initial paragraph describing the community portal clearer.

Community Portal Discussion

• This page is basically a simplified version of the wikipedia community portal. We can add more of their features here as appropriate. Please feel free to edit in major and minor ways.--BC 15:43, 9 February 2006 (EST)

• I'm trying to use this page to aggregate all the discussions and pages that have been generated regarding the issue of community development and back-end users.

• There is currently still help info. at the bottom of the page. All this information may best be relocated to a master help page.

Making it easier for people to contribute

In the future, there are some other things we could do to help people contribute to OWW -

• Rename this page or give it a more prominent location.
• Create a mailing list for people interested in opportunities to contribute to OWW. This would be a contributors/developers mailing list. All the same information would be available on this page but its always useful to receive reminders of what needs to be done.
• It may also be useful to create a developers sub-committee of the OpenWetWare steering committee that could meet (in person if the need arises) to make decisions about new features or the organization of OWW.
• What other ways can we enable people to contribute to OWW?

Community development meeting 2/21/06

Agenda

To discuss ways to encourage people to contribute to the OWW community at any level.

Attendees

• Barry Canton
• Jeff Gritton
• Jason Kelly
• Ilya Sytchev
• John Cumbers
• Sriram Kosuri
• Reshma Shetty
• Austin Che
• Alice Cox - OCW

Action List

1. Lab page template - JC
2. Protocol template - BC
3. Tutorial template - JG
4. Testimonials - JC with help from members of admin list
5. Categories/Tags - Reshma Shetty, Jason Kelly
6. Filter search results by namespace - Sriram Kosuri