[OWW-SC] Reddit Proposal for Thursday Discussion

[Jason Kelly]

Hi folks,

If you have some time take a peek at this as well:
http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Steering_committee/Goals

Basically, trying to get a discussion started about firm goals for the
SC over the next 6 months, so that we can make decisions about
prioritizing our resouces.

Thanks, see you thursday.
jason

On 8/8/06, Julius Lucks <lucks at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> The publishing group has put together an idea to link up voting on select
> pages of OWW.  As it stands, we would create a subreddit of reddit.com
> devoted to OWW (openwetware.reddit.com), and link it with the existing wiki.
>  As you can see on arxiv.reddit.com (a subreddit that deals with scientific
> content - in this case the physics preprint archive), the site consists of
> user posts that can be voted and commented on.  We outline the idea on
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> http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Publishing_group/Reddit_idea
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> We would like to start this as an experiment, with its impact on normal
> users who do not want to participate minimal.  It will be interesting to see
> how it evolves, perhaps into an alternative publishing channel as we
> outline.  We would like to make a decision by Thursday to proceed, but
> please start the discussion on the wiki now.
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> Cheers,
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> Julius, John, Jason (JJJ)
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