From ilyas at MIT.EDU  Sun Dec 17 21:26:37 2006
From: ilyas at MIT.EDU (Ilya Sytchev)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:26:37 -0500
Subject: [OWW-Discuss] OpenServing
Message-ID: <4585FC5D.4050805@mit.edu>

Wikia (wikia.com), a provider of community resources for building free 
content on all topics as well as the commercial counterpart to the 
non-profit Wikipedia (wikipedia.com), recently announced it has launched 
a new open-source project that offers all the software, computing, 
storage and network access necessary for users to create, maintain and 
disseminate their own content and information online, for free.

http://www.thewhir.com/features/121306_Wikia_Launches_Free_Hosting.cfm


Wikia?s OpenServing extends the essence of the open source model ? free 
software and content ? to all aspects of web-based computing. The six 
pillars of Wikia?s OpenServing offering are: FREE software, FREE 
bandwidth, FREE storage, FREE computing power, FREE content over the 
Internet, and GIVING AWAY 100% of the ad inventory and revenue to 
bloggers and website owners who partner with Wikia.

http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_unveils_OpenServing


From rshetty at MIT.EDU  Wed Dec 20 18:33:31 2006
From: rshetty at MIT.EDU (Reshma Shetty)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:33:31 -0500
Subject: [OWW-Discuss] Fwd: [sc-announce] "Let's talk about
	cyberinfrastructure ..." - Science Commons Blog
In-Reply-To: <45895661.1010508@creativecommons.org>
References: <45895661.1010508@creativecommons.org>
Message-ID: <6e9f40380612201533h67c322d8y831fa3a84b28bc08@mail.gmail.com>

FYI.

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From: Kaitlin Thaney <kaitlin at creativecommons.org>
Date: Dec 20, 2006 10:27 AM
Subject: [sc-announce] "Let's talk about cyberinfrastructure ..." -
Science Commons Blog
To: sc-announce at lists.ibiblio.org



 http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2006/12/20/designing-cyberinfrastructure/

Let's talk about cyberinfrastructure ?

Science Commons has joined the Committee for Economic Development, the
Council on Competitiveness, the National Science Foundation and the
University of Michigan in sponsoring a conference this January on
Cyberinfrastructure.
 Entitled "Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and
Innovation ? Emerging Frameworks and Strategies for Enabling and
Controlling Knowledge," this conference hopes to do just that ? to
open the lines of communication in hopes of further assessing emerging
models. The event brings together policy makers and opinion leaders in
government, industry and academia to discuss the future of
cyberinfrastructure, enabling it to successfully continue to support
current and future discoveries in science and engineering. ....

 Click the above link to read more.

 ----
 Kaitlin Thaney
 Office/Project Manager
 Science Commons
 http://sciencecommons.org
 kaitlin at creativecommons.org

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From jasonk at MIT.EDU  Wed Dec 20 21:06:20 2006
From: jasonk at MIT.EDU (Jason Kelly)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:06:20 -0500
Subject: [OWW-Discuss] Fwd: PLoS ONE Beta - now launched
In-Reply-To: <ab35f0aada3afd9c2b6e495eed3f1ea1@lists.plos.org>
References: <ab35f0aada3afd9c2b6e495eed3f1ea1@lists.plos.org>
Message-ID: <7c085c480612201806laf392bcke637e9dd1ae09912@mail.gmail.com>

PLoS One has launched - if you sign up soon for content alerts you can even
get a free t-shirt ;)

will be interesting to see how things play out with the annotation and
commenting on the papers.
jason

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From: PLoS ONE <bounces at mailman.plos.org>
Date: Dec 20, 2006 8:46 PM
Subject: PLoS ONE Beta - now launched
To: jasonk at mit.edu

   [image: PLoS ONE Beta - Publishing Science, accelerating research | Open
Access 2.0] <http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_01>  The wait is over!

December 20, 2006

Dear Colleague,

*PLoS ONE beta <http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_01>, *a new way of
communicating peer-reviewed science and medicine, * is now launched.*

Before your first visit, I want to let you know about the inherent
challenges of this project and the philosophy that compels PLoS to confront
them.

We want to speed up scientific progress and believe that scientific debate
is as important as the investigation itself. *PLoS ONE* is a forum where
research can be both shared and commented upon - we are launching it as a
beta website so that the whole scientific community can help us develop the
features.

What makes the site beta? Not the content, which features peer-reviewed
research from hundreds of authors across a diverse range of scientific
disciplines. It's the additional tools and functionality surrounding these
papers that will be continually refined and developed in response to user
feedback.

It is this union of continually evolving user tools provided by the Topaz
publishing platform <http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_02> and extensive content
that will make *PLoS ONE* a success.
 Connect

* The first 100 people (first come, first served) to sign up for content
alerts <http://rd.plos.org/promo/0055.php> from this email will receive a
free t-shirt. *
[image: Get a Free T-Shirt when you Sign Up]<http://rd.plos.org/promo/0055.php>

Signing up is a smart move because it allows you to both receive email
content alerts tailored to your specific fields of interest and make use of
the interactive tools, like annotation, as they become available.

The first beta release of *PLoS ONE* features tools that allow users to
annotate articles and participate in discussion threads. Our goal is to
spark lively discussion online and we'd like to invite you to participate.
Future updates will include user ratings for both papers and the comments
made about them, personalized content alerts and much more.

We will be watching with interest to see how our new platform and software
responds to high volumes of traffic and encourage you to give your feedback
on your first experience via the site itself.

*To stay involved:*

   - Sign up for content alerts <http://rd.plos.org/promo/0055.php>
   First 100 people receive a *PLoS ONE* t-shirt (first come, first
   served).
   - Submit your work <http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_03>
   Visit the *PLoS ONE *Journal Management System to upload your article.


Thanks so much for your early support. It really has made the world of
difference to know that you and more than 4,000 of your peers have been
behind us from the start.

See you online.

Chris Surridge
Managing Editor
*PLoS ONE*


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