Revision as of 12:34, 22 February 2008

Venture Mentoring Services conference call to do list from 2/22/08

Dawn suggested we conduct a series of interviews with several consortia to determine their business models

Identify a list of consortia to examine
- DSpace (MIT libraries)
- Things that Think (MIT Media Lab)
- Digital Life (MIT Media Lab)
- Center for Digital Business (MIT Sloan)

Compile a list of interview questions for consortia directors
- What is the structure of the consortium?
- Where does your funding come from?
- What are your obligations to members?

Build a list of 3 possible sustainability models each with a possible budget or budget requirements.
- Consortium
- Grant-funded
- Donations + Advertising

What do we want from our board?
What might they expect in return for serving on our board?
People who have expressed interest in working with us as board members:
- Dorit Zuk: AAAS fellow and former editor of Molecular Cell
- Bob Prior: Executive editor for life sciences, MIT Press

Short-, Medium-, and long-term projects we hope to accomplish with OWW

- Take some number of iGem 2008 projects from start (lab notebooks kept on OWW) to finish (publication of top 10 projects in a recognized medium)

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 **Dorit Zuk: AAAS fellow and former editor of Molecular Cell
 **Bob Prior: Executive editor for life sciences, MIT Press
+==Projects==
+Short-, Medium-, and long-term projects we hope to accomplish with OWW
+#*Take some number of iGem 2008 projects from start (lab notebooks kept on OWW) to finish (publication of top 10 projects in a recognized medium)
+==Make decisions about what OWW business and financial information will be made visible to the community.==