OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - July 2006

Time/Location

 * Time : 12-1pm EST, 7/13/06
 * Room : 32-262 (Stata center)

To Conference Call:

Audiobridge Phone No.: 617-452-5190

To participate in the meeting, call the above number a little before 12pm EDT. You should be connected in to the conference call. Apologies that this requires you to call in, but this is how the audiobridge system works at MIT.

Agenda/Post-meeting notes in bold

 * Software Development: Alex Mallet
 * Any progress putting Eric's journal abbreviations on OWW? (Eric Patridge, Austin Che)
 * Waiting to hear from Eric.
 * Community Development: Sri Kosuri
 * Open Science seminar series - PLoS One speaker?
 * Confirmed Chris Surridge (likely in September)
 * Advertising: Ty Thomson
 * Should we write a paper/editorial like this? Jason Kelly
 * Discussion about this here.
 * User Experience/Data Management: Jeff Gritton & Barry Canton
 * Update on the Standard protocol meeting Jenny Nguyen
 * '''Discussion on how best to categorize pages
 * Article naming conventions: (here,here,here) - nice work Reshma, Kathleen, others.
 * About me template - nice work mike, others
 * Education Coordinator: Reshma Shetty
 * Lab highlights: John Cumbers
 * Video on the front page? -- awesome video by the way. Video on front page approved, action item below.
 * Funding:
 * NSF Grant Finished - thanks everyone! - Jason Kelly
 * Non-profit status, a good idea? Sriram Kosuri Not at the moment, would like to remain under MIT's umbrella.
 * iCampus further funding request for establishing formal decision making / SC org /etc by Dec 31 - Jason Kelly,Jeff Gritton Jason looking into who would help us with this, and we will be discussing it at the retreat.
 * NPG offer, long term plans, etc (see Retreat Planning below) Drew Endy Holding on NPG until after the retreat.


 * Other:
 * T-shirt needs a slogan (Jenny, Jason)
 * science foo camp Jason Kelly
 * Retreat Planning Drew Endy:
 * What is OpenWetWare?
 * Online Notebook?
 * Collaborative Research?
 * Collaborative Education?
 * Novel Research Publishing Channel?
 * Other?
 * What are our goals?
 * Survival of the organism
 * OK, done, now what?
 * What isn't OWW?
 * What is the best path forward?
 * Notes from previous meeting on this topic

Action List! ;)
Don't have my notes with me unfortunately, so please add if I missed something.
 * 1) Comment on the retreat agenda. (EVERYONE)
 * 2) Put the video (or picture link to video) on the Main Page, but make sure video works with IE. (John Cumbers)
 * 3) Look into who we would hire/ask to help us put in place formal decision making processes and organizational structure. (Jason Kelly)
 * 4) Put a page listing all the suggested categories up on the protocols page. (Jenny Nguyen)
 * 5) Write letter to labs with empty homepages (Jenny Nguyen)

Discussions
''These are discussion topics brought up during the last meeting, that will be continued on the wiki. Each heading links to a discussion on the topic. Will update after this meeting with new dicussions / remove completed discussions.''
 * Community development/Article or editorial in a journal
 * Should we write up and submit an article to a journal to expose OWW to more scientists? and push the agenda of sharing scientific information more broadly on the web?
 * Letter to labs with empty homepages
 * Draft of letter for moving empty sites from the main page
 * Community development/New user experience
 * What should the new user experience look like? Should we have a “welcoming committee”?
 * Information management/Standard protocol submission
 * What sort of tags or categories would work best?
 * Design/T-shirt
 * T-shirt designs/slogans.