Publishing Group/Meeting 10-6-05

Time: 12p-1p
Place: 68-580
Date: 10.6.05

Attendees

1. Drew
2. BC
3. Reshma
4. Samantha Sutton
5. Natalie
6. Austin Che
7. Julie Norville
8. Sri Kosuri
9. Ty
10. Pam Silver

Notes

What kinds of information we would want to share

1. characteristics of parts
2. standards of characterization
3. ideas about how to organize the work in synthetic biology
4. process of design, decisions, tools, rational (comics?)
5. failures
6. critiques, comments, reviews, feedback
7. successful applications
8. societal issues

Features that we would like to see in mediums for publishing

1. publishing versions (e.g., different introductions)
2. snarf in (from other places), push out (to other journals)
3. open access
4. collaboration (a la RFC's and wiki) for things like standards
5. issues on peer review
   • thumbs up/down rating system
   • open reviews
   • comments/revisions

Methods for sharing

1. wiki
   • fixed access?
2. coordination DSpace and Wiki publishing
3. RFC (request for comment)

Meta

how to structure things to attract the very best people to this community (do we want to convert folks, or do we want to accommodate new folks)