OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - 1/6/06
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Time/Location
- Friday, 1/6/06 : 1:00-2:00
- Location: MIT, room 68-574
Agenda
- Revised budget to match 18.5K (30K minus overhead)
- Will need to allocate money prior to a review in March/April where we could recieve additional funding.
- Current Budget (detailed):
- UROPS: 12K
- Advertising: 2K
- Travel: 5K
- Boston-area Tutorials: 1K
- OWW Seminar Series: 10K
- Sub-committee leaders
- Do we want to keep the same leaders as were assigned for the iCampus meeting?
- Finances:Jason Kelly
- Timeline Manager:Danielle France
- Software Development:Barry Canton
- Community Development/Advertising:Sri Kosuri
- User Experience/Data Management:Jeff Gritton
- Education Coordinator:Reshma Shetty
- Do we want to keep the same leaders as were assigned for the iCampus meeting?
- Sub-committee goals for IAP
- Update the timeline, and specify tasks for each sub-committee to be accomplished before next meeting.
- Procedural
- Meeting time/frequency
- Lunch meetings, once or twice a month?
- Email lists
- Should admin/steering committee be same list?
- Meeting time/frequency
- Open discussion
OpenWetWare steering committee/Suggestions
Notes
- Budget
- The budget was revised:
- UROPS: 7K
- 2 Spring UROPs and a Summer UROP
- Advertising: 2K
- Artist to design materials (1K), mailings/business cards/etc (1K)
- Travel: 2K
- Boston-area Tutorials: 0.5K
- OWW Seminar Series: 7K
- UROPS: 7K
- The budget was revised:
- Sub-committee leaders
- These will stay the same, except we split Community/Advertising into two seperate positions, Sri will remain as Community and Ty will be Advertising.
- Sub-committee goals for IAP
- Finances:
- get the budget approved by iCampus, set up the account (Jason Kelly)
- Software Development:
- UROP advertisement (Alex Mallet)
- Community Development:
- Potential speaker list for open science seminar series (Sri Kosuri)
- There was some debate over the usefulness of the seminar series, some reasons given in support were:
- Slide about OWW to be mentioned during introduction of the speaker
- Advertising via linking to videos of the seminar through the site.
- The speaker is forced to admit the existence of OWW
- Great speakers would be good educational experience and advance the overall goals of OWW of increasing openess in science.
- Tutorial session for the MIT community (Jason Kelly)
- Jeff suggested that we do a good job of this and video it. Then we can have a video presenation with slide show available for download for people wanting to find out about the site via the web.
- Advertising
- Look into hiring an artist to design logo, etc (Ty Thomson)
- Advertisement before Biology Colloquim was suggested.
- Presentation at BE or Biology Retreats.
- User Experience/Data Management:(Jeff Gritton & Barry Canton)
- Drew suggested we spend time developing a strategy to encourage the growth of 'back-end' users in order to ensure number of dedicated editors (quality-checkers) scales with the user base.
- One suggestion was to build out the OpenWetWare:Community Portal, using wikipedia's community portal as an example.
- Natalie suggested talking to the iGEM teams about their experience with the iGEM wiki, since there was a number of groups who didn't like it -- should be a good source of feedback for us. (Also, could use these contacts to recruit new labs to OWW)
- Finances:
- Procedural
- Next meeting will be in ~2 weeks date/time TBA
- Making new email lists
- admin -- inquiries from public, requests for accounts, etc.
- steering_committee -- discussion of back-end type stuff
- announce -- annoucements list