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| Right now this is a volunteer-based committee, if you want to help out please sign your name in one of the goal areas. Currently the set of goals outlined are mapped from the [[ICampus Application for OWW|iCampus application for OWW]], so feel free to add or edit these but it seemed like a good starting point.
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| ==Software development== | | :<font size=3>'''Spotlight'''</font> |
| In order to facilitate user interactions with OpenWetWare, we would like to establish UROP positions to work on a variety of software tools:
| | :*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - June 2008|Notes from June 2008 meeting]] |
| #Tools to simplify data entry into the wiki (e.g., direct conversion of Excel/Word/LaTeX documents into wiki markup language).
| | :*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - May 2008|Notes from May 2008 meeting]] |
| #Tools to map wiki pages onto static websites. We have already begun to explore such possibilities ( see http://syntheticbiology.org ), and would be interested in making such tools easier to use and more widely available.
| | :*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - April 2008|Notes from Apr 2008 meeting]] |
| #Tools to integrate permanent and evolving documents. For example, what is the best interface between MIT's DSpace ( http://dspace.mit.edu ) and OpenWetWare?
| | :*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - March 2008|Notes from Mar 2008 meeting]] |
| Ideally, we hope to coordinate with the MediaWiki open source community on tools that are likely to be of general use to the community (MediaWiki is the open source software that OpenWetWare is based on).
| | :*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - February 2008|Notes from Feb 2008 meeting]] |
| | :*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - January 2008|Notes from Jan 2008 meeting]] |
| | :*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - December 2007|Notes from Dec 2007 meeting]] |
| | :*[[OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - November 2007|Notes from Nov 2007 meeting]] |
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| ==Cultivation of user base== | | :<font size=3>'''Town Hall Meetings'''</font> |
| The success of OpenWetWare depends critically on cultivating and maintaining an active user base. We plan to dedicate funds to enable tutorials, conference visits, advertising, and other mechanisms for recruiting new users to OpenWetWare.
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| ===Contacts===
| | :* OWW Town Hall Meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every month. For information, visit the [[OpenWetWare:Steering_committee/Town Hall Meeting|Town Hall Meeting]] page. (Note: to view the meeting page, click on the calendar date.) |
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| ==Data management== | | :<font size=3>'''SC Mailing List'''</font> |
| In the long term, the success of OpenWetWare relies on the assumption that the number of users actively curating the information of OpenWetWare will scale with the amount of content generated. However, there has been little work to examine how collaborative tools can best be used to develop information resources, such as the OpenWetWare protocol collection. We believe the project would benefit dramatically from the active establishment of community standards for organizing content in OpenWetWare. We will establish a UROP position to evaluate and implement templates and other methods for organizing information in OpenWetWare.
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| ===Contacts===
| | :*This list has restricted membership and is unmoderated. If you would like to help, please participate in the [[OpenWetWare:Steering committee]] activities. You can sign up [http://groups.google.com/group/openwetware-discuss here]. |
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| ==Integration with laboratory classes== | | :<font size=3>'''News'''</font> |
| To complement its mission to promote an open culture in biological science and engineering, OpenWetWare will be integrated into the curriculum of laboratory classes. As a pilot experiment, MIT's [[BE.109 | BE.109 Laboratory fundamentals of biological engineering]] will be relying heavily on OpenWetWare to disseminate course content and to serve as a shared space for students, TA's and instructors to communicate.
| | :*April 17 2008: 12-1p EST OWW action hour. Meet in the wiki chat room: http://openwetware.org/chat/. |
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| *Principle contact: [[Natalie Kuldell]]
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| *Other contributors: [[Reshma Shetty]]
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| The tasks of greatest initial importance lie in building the usage infrastructure of OpenWetWare; i.e., quantifying the current usage and developing the tools and guidelines that will be needed to continue its growth. This timeline is written with this initial output in mind. It is expected that many of the up-front analysis and development tasks will morph into more curative duties as the year progresses. Some tasks will be better suited to a time when more of the infrastructure is in place. For example, we might wait until the summer to begin merging OpenWetWare with fall class curricula.
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| Regular committments include monthly committee meetings.
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| 12.2005:
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| *Advertise for two UROP positions: software development and usage statistics & analysis
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| *Compile initial observations of wiki usage, desired software improvements, and specific tasks for UROP positions
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| *Make initial advertising materials (business cards, advertising & lab invitation emails)
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| 01.2006:
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| *Review findings of Usage/Data Management UROP
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| *Formulate usage guidelines and develop their implementation
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| *First recruitment/introductory tutorial luncheon
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| 02.2006:
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| *Review protocol templates, conversion tools, links to static webpages
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| *Implement usable tools with current users
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| *Second recruitment/introductory tutorial luncheon
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| 03.2006:
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| *Design set of advertising materials (posters, mailings, etc) and have printed
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| *Develop outreach strategy: identify relevant conferences & meetings, etc.
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| *Third recruitment/introductory tutorial luncheon
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| *Recruit at Bioengineering Department Retreat
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| *Fourth recruitment/introductory tutorial luncheon
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| summer.2006:
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| *Develop tutorials for integration with BE.109 and 7.02
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| *Hold large-scale 'brush-up' tutorial for all current users
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| *Usage/Data Management UROP develops strategy for integration with DSpace
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| *Develop institution-specific information hubs
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| *Fifth recruitment/introductory tutorial luncheon
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