[OWW-SC] Fwd: OWW funding report

[Sri Kosuri]

Dear Funding Folk,

I forgot to mention.  While I was looking for funding sources a while back,
the Mellon foundation seemed especially appropriate.
http://www.mellon.org

They have a special program on scholarly communications.  (
http://www.mellon.org/scholarly.html ) whose main missions are:

   - Use forms of scholarly communications to stimulate collaborations
   among scholars and scholarly institutions in ways that substantially advance
   knowledge;
   - Foster the means economically to sustain forms of scholarly
   communication; and
   - Apply technology to forms of scholarly communications in order to
   improve quality, lower costs, speed up work, open new perspectives, or make
   work possible that would otherwise be difficult or impossible.

They previously developed JStor, and also funded MIT OpenCourseWare.

Sri


On 8/15/06, Drew Endy <endy at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Quick follow-up to below.
> This is the Moore Foundation URL: http://www.moore.org/They provide(d) the
> key support to get PLoS going.
>
> Best,
> Drew
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Drew Endy <endy at MIT.EDU>
> *Date: *August 15, 2006 12:58:50 PM EDT
> *To: *oww-sc <sc at openwetware.org>
> *Subject: **[OWW-SC] OWW funding report*
>
>
> OWW SC,
> Belated report from last week's exploratory lunch with Don Odom of
> Blackwell Publishing (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/).  By way of
> background, this was a random connection that I took advantage of in order
> to "test float" the idea of developing a consortium of publishing houses who
> might individually or collectively support OWW as an incubator for
> next-generation online publishing and community building.  Basically, they
> thought it was a neat idea and they need to think about some stuff.  My
> guess is that any publisher would be of the same opinion.  I'm not anxious
> to push this forward until we hear back re: NSF grant (and possible items
> below, see below).
>
> Meanwhile, more to report...
>
> I spoke with Mike Eisen on Saturday.  Mike is a friend and one of the PLoS
> founders.  He suggested asking the Moore Foundation for a small grant ($250k
> per year, 3 years) to provide turnkey financial support to OWW.  He'd be
> happy to help put our proposal in front of the right person.  Basically,
> this would be a 3-page white paper that I could pull together pretty quickly
> from the NSF grant.  It seems like a good idea to me.  Please let me know if
> I should go ahead or not.
>
> I'm still supposed to follow-up with the possibility of a small gift from
> an MIT alum ($50k?) to support OWW.  I will do this unless there's some
> reason not to (hard to imagine).
>
> Best,
> Drew
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"Odom Don" <DOdom at bos.blackwellpublishing.com>
> *Date: *August 10, 2006 5:35:45 PM EDT
> *To: *<endy at mit.edu>
> *Cc: *"John Benditt" <jbenditt at mac.com>, "Harington Robert" <
> RHarington at bos.blackwellpublishing.com>
> *Subject: **OpenWetWare*
>
> Drew,
>
> It was a pleasure to brainstorm with you and John concerning the various
> exciting avenues for partnering in the further development of OpenWetWare. I
> will brief Robert regarding our discussion and get back to you with any
> additional questions or points that may need clarification as we continue
> the discussion. When Robert is back from parental leave, hopefully we can
> find an opportunity to meet again.
>
> Best regards,
> Don
>
> --
> Don Odom
> Sr Editor, Science Journals
> Blackwell Publishing Inc.
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