From jasonk at MIT.EDU Wed Mar 1 00:23:54 2006 From: jasonk at MIT.EDU (Jason Kelly) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:23:54 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] Steering Comm Meeting next Monday Message-ID: <7c085c480602282123r33717355w806c6aa819c3e51d@mail.gmail.com> hi folks, We'll be having a steering committee meeting next Monday (3/6) at 4-5pm in 32-262. This room is conference call enabled (and we tested it during the community development meeting last week), so it should work better than last time. Details and a rough agenda can be found here. http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare_steering_committee/Meeting_-_3/6/06 Please feel free to fill in your relevant sections / add topics. thanks, jason From jasonk at MIT.EDU Wed Mar 1 10:10:50 2006 From: jasonk at MIT.EDU (Jason Kelly) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:10:50 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] conference call for steering committee meeting Message-ID: <7c085c480603010710l1164d433j20ab61d29db37c28@mail.gmail.com> If you are going to be conference calling into the meeting, please call 617-452-5190 a few minutes before 4:00 in order to make sure things get set up. The way the MIT system works, you need to call in -- we can't call out to your numbers. hope that isn't a huge problem. Thanks, Jason From saclarke at MIT.EDU Wed Mar 8 19:29:54 2006 From: saclarke at MIT.EDU (Sean Aidan Clarke) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:29:54 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] abstract draft Message-ID: <20060308192954.2fwem7kk4pgcwwwg@webmail.mit.edu> This is a draft for an abstract for the MIT Biological Engineering retreat poster session. I'm not particularly satisfied with it, so I'm putting it out for comments and edits. Write to me or make changes on http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Poster Thanks, Sean OpenWetWare is a web site created to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and ideas among researchers and groups who are working in biology, biological engineering, and related disciplines. The site provides a place for labs, groups, and individuals to organize information and to easily and efficiently collaborate with other community members based on a wiki system of user-editable pages. The site is powered by the same software as Wikipedia, providing a user-friendly interface for creating and editing pages directly on the site. Images can be easily embedded in pages, and there are mechanisms for reference. All changes are recorded in a page's history, and pages can be easily reverted to an earlier version. OpenWetWare provides an intermediate place for recording work, a forum for discussion pre-publication, and a possible alternative for some types of work not suited to traditional publishing means. The site hosts information such as protocols and past publications, as well as discussions of current issues and research topics. There are also distinct advantages for individual labs in using OpenWetWare. Besides serving as a public face for the group, the wiki can be used to plan meetings, discuss events, and maintain a common base of information. The dynamic nature of the site also means that the lab's presence can be kept more accurate and up-to-date than a static web site. Please visit openwetware.org and e-mail admin at openwetware.org to join this growing community. From jasonk at MIT.EDU Wed Mar 8 22:20:45 2006 From: jasonk at MIT.EDU (Jason Kelly) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:20:45 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] iCampus reception tomorrow Message-ID: <7c085c480603081920y4a30ea73n916eed1053b88f77@mail.gmail.com> hi folks, Just a reminder that there is an iCampus reception tomorrow (32-G449), starting at 11am. I'll be getting there at ~12:00, but anyone who wants to grab a free lunch should please head over. thanks, jason details: We would like to invite you to an iCampus reception on Thursday March 9, from 11am-1pm, in the Stata Kiva room (32-G449). A light lunch will be served. We would like to take this opportunity to show our appreciation of you, the PIs on the iCampus projects, as well as to share with you some of the other research projects, with which you might not be familiar. We have asked two of the PIs to make brief presentations. You will hear about iDAT, from Ian Hunter, and the Classroom Learning Partner, from Kimberle Koile. I do hope you can join us. The presentations will begin at 11am, in the Kiva Conference room (32-G449), followed by a light yet delicious lunch, where we will be able to continue our discussion informally. We will update you on the current status of iCampus, including our outreach initiative. From saclarke at MIT.EDU Sun Mar 12 11:54:58 2006 From: saclarke at MIT.EDU (Sean Aidan Clarke) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:54:58 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] NYTimes on Wikipedia and open source Message-ID: Memorable lines: * "If someone really wants to write 'George Bush is a poopy head,'you've got to wait four days," he said. * "It makes me grind my teeth to hear Wikipedia compared to open source." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/yourmoney/12digi.htmlThe New York Times March 12, 2006Digital DomainAnonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open SourceBy RANDALL STROSS WIKIPEDIA, the free online encyclopedia, currently serves up thefollowing: Five billion pages a month. More than 120 languages. Inexcess of one million English-language articles. And a single naggingepistemological question: Can an article be judged as credible withoutknowing its author? Wikipedia says yes, but I am unconvinced. Dispensing with experts, the Wikipedians invite anyone to pitch in,writing an article or editing someone else's. No expertise isrequired, nor even a name. Sound inviting? You can start immediately.The system rests upon the belief that a collectivity of unknown butenthusiastic individuals, by dint of sheer mass rather than possessionof conventional credentials, can serve in the supervisory role ofeditor. Anyone with an interest in a topic can root out inaccuraciesand add new material. At first glance, this sounds straightforward. But disagreements ariseall the time about what is a problematic passage or anencyclopedia-worthy topic, or even whether a putative correctionimproves or detracts from the original version. The egalitarian nature of a system that accords equal votes toeveryone in the "community" ? middle-school student and Nobel laureatealike ? has difficulty resolving intellectual disagreements. Wikipedia's reputation and internal editorial process would benefit byhaving a single authority vouch for the quality of a given article. Inthe jargon of library and information science, lay readers rely upon"secondary epistemic criteria," clues to the credibility ofinformation when they do not have the expertise to judge the content. Once upon a time, Encyclopaedia Britannica recruited Einstein, Freud,Curie, Mencken and even Houdini as contributors. The names helped theencyclopedia bolster its credibility. Wikipedia, by contrast, providesalmost no clues for the typical article by which reliability can beappraised. A list of edits provides only screen names or, in the caseof the anonymous editors, numerical Internet Protocol addresses.Wasn't yesterday's practice of attaching "Albert Einstein" to anarticle on "Space-Time" a bit more helpful than today's"71.240.205.101"? What does Wikipedia's system offer in place of an expert authoritywilling to place his or her professional reputation on the line with asignature attached to an article? When I asked Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, last week, hediscounted the importance of individual contributors to Britannica."When people trust an article in Britannica," he said, "it's not whowrote it, it's the process." There, a few editors review a piece andthen editing ceases. By contrast, Wikipedia is built with unendingscrutiny and ceaseless editing. He predicts that in the future, it will be Britannica's process thatwill seem strange: "People will say, 'This was written by one person?Then looked at by only two or three other people? How can I trust thatprocess?' " The Wikipedian hive is capable of impressive feats. TheEnglish-language collection recently added its millionth article, forexample. It was about the Jordanhill railway station, in Glasgow. Theoriginal version, a few paragraphs, appeared to say all that a layreader would ever wish to know about it. But the hive descended and ina week, more than 640 edits were logged. If every topic could be addressed like this, without recourse tospecialized learning ? and without the heated disputes called flamewars ? the anonymous hive could be trusted to produce work of highquality. But the Jordanhill station is an exception. Biographical entries, for example, are often accompanied bycontroversy. Several recent events have shown how anyone can tamperwith someone else's entry. Congressional staff members have beenunmasked burnishing articles about their employers and vandalizingthose of political rivals. (Sample addition: "He likes to beat hiswife and children.") Mr. Wales himself ignored the encyclopedia's guidelines about "DealingWith Articles About Yourself" and altered his own Wikipedia biography;when other editors undid them, he reapplied his changes. Theincidents, even if few in number, do not help Wikipedia establish thelegitimacy of a process that is reluctant to say no to anyone. It should be noted that Mr. Wales is a full-time volunteer, and thatneither he nor the thousands of fellow volunteer editors has apecuniary interest in this nonprofit project. He also deservesaccolades for keeping Wikipedia operating without the intrusion ofadvertising, at least so far. Most winningly, he has overseen a system that is gleefully candid inits public self-examination. If you're seeking a well-organized listof criticisms of Wikipedia, you won't find a better place thanWikipedia's coverage of itself. Wikipedia also provides a taxonomy ofno fewer than 23 different forms of vandalism that strike it. It is easy to forget how quickly Wikipedia has grown; it began only in2001. With the passage of a little more time, Mr. Wales and hisassociates may come around to the idea that identifying one person asa given article's supervising editor would enhance the encyclopedia'sreputation. Mr. Wales has already responded to recent negative articles aboutvandalism at the site with announcements of modest reforms. Anonymousvisitors are no longer permitted to create pages, though they stillmay edit existing ones. To curb what Mr. Wales calls "drive-by pranks" that are concentratedon particular articles, he has instituted a policy of"semi-protection." In these cases, a user must have registered atleast four days before being permitted to make changes to theprotected article. "If someone really wants to write 'George Bush is apoopy head,' you've got to wait four days," he said. When asked what problems on the site he viewed as most pressing, Mr.Wales said he was concerned with passing along the Wikipedian cultureto newcomers. He sounded wistful when he spoke of the days not so longago when he could visit an article that was the subject of a flame warand would know at least some participants ? and whether they couldresolve the dispute tactfully. As the project has grown, he has found that he no longer necessarilyknows anyone in a group. When a dispute flared recently over anarticle related to a new dog breed, he looked at the discussion andasked himself in frustration, "Who are these people?" Isn't this precisely the question all users are bound to ask about contributors? By wide agreement, the print encyclopedia in the English world reachedits apogee in 1911, with the completion of Encyclopaedia Britannica's11th edition. (For the fullest tribute, turn to Wikipedia.) But theWikipedia experiment need not be pushed back in time toward thatmodel. It need only be pushed forward, so it can catch up to otherswith more experience in online collaboration: the open-source softwaremovement. Wikipedia and open-source projects like Linux are similarlynoncommercial, intellectual enterprises, mobilizing volunteers whowill probably never meet one another in person. But even thoughWikipedians like to position their project under the open-sourceumbrella, the differences are wide. Jeff Bates, a vice president of the Open Source Technology Group whooversees SourceForge.net, the host of more than 80,000 activeopen-source projects, said, "It makes me grind my teeth to hearWikipedia compared to open source." In every open-source project, hesaid, there is "a benevolent dictator" who ultimately takesresponsibility, even though the code is contributed by many. Goodstuff results only if "someone puts their name on it." WIKIPEDIA has good stuff, too. These have been designated "featuredarticles." But it will be a long while before allone-million-and-counting entries have been carefully double-checkedand buffed to a high shine. Only 923 have been granted "featured"status, and the consensus-building process is presently capable ofadding only about one a day. Mr. Wales is not happy with this pace and seems open to looking againat the open-source software model for ideas. Software development thatrelies on scattered volunteers is a two-step process: first, a liberalpolicy encourages the contributions of many, then a restrictive policyfollows to stabilize the code in preparation for release. Wikipedia,he said, has "half the model." There's no question that Wikipedia volunteers can address many moretopics than the lumbering, for-profit incumbents like Britannica andWorld Book, and can update entries swiftly. Still, anonymity blockscredibility. One thing that Wikipedians have exactly right is that thecurrent form of the encyclopedia is a beta test. The quality levelthat would permit speaking of Version 1.0 is still in the future. Randall Stross is a historian and author based in Silicon Valley.E-mail: ddomain at nytimes.com. * Copyright 2006The New York Times Company From johncumbers at gmail.com Sun Mar 12 17:05:32 2006 From: johncumbers at gmail.com (John Cumbers) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:05:32 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] Highlights time again Message-ID: Hi all, It is 2 weeks since those highlights went up, http://openwetware.org/wiki/Highlights. I have 3 thoughts for the next lot (of which maybe we choose 2) once is a random lab highlight, or a lab that a cool paper has come out of recently another idea was to highlight the community portal, a third was to select a protocol to highlight and give a bit of background to it. I've started a new discussion here http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Highlights on the subject. cheers, John -- John Cumbers, Graduate Student in Computational Biology Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Box G-W 80 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA USA: +1 401 523 8190, UK to USA: 0207 617 7824 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/oww-sc/attachments/20060312/2ad9a8f3/attachment.htm From jennyn at MIT.EDU Tue Mar 14 15:19:41 2006 From: jennyn at MIT.EDU (Jenny Nguyen) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:19:41 -0600 Subject: [OWW-SC] New Color Scheme Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20060314141818.0604be90@hesiod> Steering Committee, I have posted the new color scheme here: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page_v2 If there are no objections, we can change the Main Page to the new colors!! Yeah! Jenny From martin_jambon at emailuser.net Tue Mar 14 19:14:53 2006 From: martin_jambon at emailuser.net (Martin Jambon) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:14:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [OWW-SC] New Color Scheme In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20060314141818.0604be90@hesiod> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20060314141818.0604be90@hesiod> Message-ID: Very nice! But would it be possible to make the title image less wide? It's cut if I don't use a full 1024 pixel wide window (i.e. anything less than full-screen with 1024x_ resolution). I don't know if there's a reliable way of telling the browser to reduce an image if it doesn't fit, but that would be nicer. Anyway, the tables are wrapped correctly (in both Opera and Firefox), so it's not a big inconvenience. Oh, and I had the same problem with the old main page too, so nothing new. Thanks Martin On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jenny Nguyen wrote: > Steering Committee, > > I have posted the new color scheme here: > http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page_v2 > If there are no objections, we can change the Main Page to the new colors!! > Yeah! > > Jenny > > _______________________________________________ > OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List > sc at openwetware.org > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc > -- Martin Jambon, PhD http://martin.jambon.free.fr Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki From endy at mit.edu Tue Mar 14 20:17:01 2006 From: endy at mit.edu (Drew Endy) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:17:01 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] New Color Scheme In-Reply-To: References: <6.2.1.2.2.20060314141818.0604be90@hesiod> Message-ID: <5CFDACD5-B35E-490C-BFC8-3A8068BAA5AE@mit.edu> I just tried hacking the size down (on the main page). Hopefully I didn't screw something up. Frosted flakes, Drew On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Martin Jambon wrote: > Very nice! > But would it be possible to make the title image less wide? It's > cut if I > don't use a full 1024 pixel wide window (i.e. anything less than > full-screen with 1024x_ resolution). I don't know if there's a > reliable > way of telling the browser to reduce an image if it doesn't fit, > but that > would be nicer. > Anyway, the tables are wrapped correctly (in both Opera and > Firefox), so > it's not a big inconvenience. > Oh, and I had the same problem with the old main page too, so > nothing new. > > Thanks > > Martin > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jenny Nguyen wrote: > >> Steering Committee, >> >> I have posted the new color scheme here: >> http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page_v2 >> If there are no objections, we can change the Main Page to the new >> colors!! >> Yeah! >> >> Jenny >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List >> sc at openwetware.org >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc >> > > -- > Martin Jambon, PhD > http://martin.jambon.free.fr > > Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki > _______________________________________________ > OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List > sc at openwetware.org > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc From martin_jambon at emailuser.net Wed Mar 15 02:04:51 2006 From: martin_jambon at emailuser.net (Martin Jambon) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:04:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [OWW-SC] New Color Scheme In-Reply-To: <5CFDACD5-B35E-490C-BFC8-3A8068BAA5AE@mit.edu> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20060314141818.0604be90@hesiod> <5CFDACD5-B35E-490C-BFC8-3A8068BAA5AE@mit.edu> Message-ID: Better, but now I see OPENWETWAR instead of OPENWETWA. Plus you don't want to penalize people who have a high resolution screen, so you can't reduce the size of the image to much. I'll try to see how to tell MediaWiki to set the width of the image to 100%. I just tried to change the HTML, and it works (the size of the logo is adjusted to the width of the visible part of the page): instead of: Martin On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Drew Endy wrote: > I just tried hacking the size down (on the main page). > Hopefully I didn't screw something up. > > Frosted flakes, > Drew > > > On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Martin Jambon wrote: > >> Very nice! >> But would it be possible to make the title image less wide? It's cut if I >> don't use a full 1024 pixel wide window (i.e. anything less than >> full-screen with 1024x_ resolution). I don't know if there's a reliable >> way of telling the browser to reduce an image if it doesn't fit, but that >> would be nicer. >> Anyway, the tables are wrapped correctly (in both Opera and Firefox), so >> it's not a big inconvenience. >> Oh, and I had the same problem with the old main page too, so nothing new. >> >> Thanks >> >> Martin >> >> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jenny Nguyen wrote: >> >>> Steering Committee, >>> >>> I have posted the new color scheme here: >>> http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page_v2 >>> If there are no objections, we can change the Main Page to the new >>> colors!! >>> Yeah! >>> >>> Jenny >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List >>> sc at openwetware.org >>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc >>> >> >> -- >> Martin Jambon, PhD >> http://martin.jambon.free.fr >> >> Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List >> sc at openwetware.org >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc > -- Martin Jambon, PhD http://martin.jambon.free.fr Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki From jennyn at mit.edu Wed Mar 15 02:12:51 2006 From: jennyn at mit.edu (Jenny Nguyen) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:12:51 -0600 Subject: [OWW-SC] New Color Scheme In-Reply-To: References: <6.2.1.2.2.20060314141818.0604be90@hesiod> <5CFDACD5-B35E-490C-BFC8-3A8068BAA5AE@mit.edu> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20060315011058.03663e20@hesiod> We might be able to fix this problem with Austin's suggestion to just get rid of the META section and merge everything into About OpenWetWare so that we can have more space in each column, and reduce the space of the page in general so that we can have it adjust by percentage rather than pixels. It's a work in progress. Good thing I'm on spring break :) , Jenny At 01:04 AM 3/15/2006, Martin Jambon wrote: >Better, but now I see OPENWETWAR instead of OPENWETWA. Plus you don't want >to penalize people who have a high resolution screen, so you can't reduce >the size of the image to much. I'll try to see how to tell MediaWiki to >set the width of the image to 100%. I just tried to change the HTML, and >it works (the size of the logo is adjusted to the width of the visible >part of the page): > >longdesc="/wiki/Image:OWW_Logo.png" /> > >instead of: >width="780" height="84" longdesc="/wiki/Image:OWW_Logo.png" /> > > >Martin > >On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Drew Endy wrote: > >>I just tried hacking the size down (on the main page). >>Hopefully I didn't screw something up. >> >>Frosted flakes, >>Drew >> >> >>On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Martin Jambon wrote: >> >>>Very nice! >>>But would it be possible to make the title image less wide? It's cut if I >>>don't use a full 1024 pixel wide window (i.e. anything less than >>>full-screen with 1024x_ resolution). I don't know if there's a reliable >>>way of telling the browser to reduce an image if it doesn't fit, but that >>>would be nicer. >>>Anyway, the tables are wrapped correctly (in both Opera and Firefox), so >>>it's not a big inconvenience. >>>Oh, and I had the same problem with the old main page too, so nothing new. >>>Thanks >>>Martin >>>On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jenny Nguyen wrote: >>> >>>>Steering Committee, >>>>I have posted the new color scheme here: >>>>http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page_v2 >>>>If there are no objections, we can change the Main Page to the new colors!! >>>>Yeah! >>>>Jenny >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List >>>>sc at openwetware.org >>>>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc >>>-- >>>Martin Jambon, PhD >>>http://martin.jambon.free.fr >>>Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki >>>_______________________________________________ >>>OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List >>>sc at openwetware.org >>>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc > >-- >Martin Jambon, PhD >http://martin.jambon.free.fr > >Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki From martin_jambon at emailuser.net Wed Mar 15 02:26:53 2006 From: martin_jambon at emailuser.net (Martin Jambon) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:26:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [OWW-SC] New Color Scheme In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20060315011058.03663e20@hesiod> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20060314141818.0604be90@hesiod> <5CFDACD5-B35E-490C-BFC8-3A8068BAA5AE@mit.edu> <6.2.1.2.2.20060315011058.03663e20@hesiod> Message-ID: I don't follow you, but it's normal, it's late already :-) My problem was about the image, not the table, which is not cut at all in Opera and Firefox, until the width of the browser is about 600px in Opera and 800px in Firefox; so they don't seem to follow the 780px parameter of the table width if I understand correctly, but the image does. Martin On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Jenny Nguyen wrote: > We might be able to fix this problem with Austin's suggestion to just get rid > of the META section and merge everything into About OpenWetWare so that we > can have more space in each column, and reduce the space of the page in > general so that we can have it adjust by percentage rather than pixels. > > It's a work in progress. > > Good thing I'm on spring break :) , > Jenny > > At 01:04 AM 3/15/2006, Martin Jambon wrote: >> Better, but now I see OPENWETWAR instead of OPENWETWA. Plus you don't want >> to penalize people who have a high resolution screen, so you can't reduce >> the size of the image to much. I'll try to see how to tell MediaWiki to set >> the width of the image to 100%. I just tried to change the HTML, and it >> works (the size of the logo is adjusted to the width of the visible part of >> the page): >> >> > longdesc="/wiki/Image:OWW_Logo.png" /> >> >> instead of: >> > width="780" height="84" longdesc="/wiki/Image:OWW_Logo.png" /> >> >> >> Martin >> >> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Drew Endy wrote: >> >>> I just tried hacking the size down (on the main page). >>> Hopefully I didn't screw something up. >>> >>> Frosted flakes, >>> Drew >>> >>> >>> On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Martin Jambon wrote: >>> >>>> Very nice! >>>> But would it be possible to make the title image less wide? It's cut if I >>>> don't use a full 1024 pixel wide window (i.e. anything less than >>>> full-screen with 1024x_ resolution). I don't know if there's a reliable >>>> way of telling the browser to reduce an image if it doesn't fit, but that >>>> would be nicer. >>>> Anyway, the tables are wrapped correctly (in both Opera and Firefox), so >>>> it's not a big inconvenience. >>>> Oh, and I had the same problem with the old main page too, so nothing >>>> new. >>>> Thanks >>>> Martin >>>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jenny Nguyen wrote: >>>> >>>>> Steering Committee, >>>>> I have posted the new color scheme here: >>>>> http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page_v2 >>>>> If there are no objections, we can change the Main Page to the new >>>>> colors!! >>>>> Yeah! >>>>> Jenny >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List >>>>> sc at openwetware.org >>>>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc >>>> -- >>>> Martin Jambon, PhD >>>> http://martin.jambon.free.fr >>>> Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List >>>> sc at openwetware.org >>>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc >> >> -- >> Martin Jambon, PhD >> http://martin.jambon.free.fr >> >> Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki > > -- Martin Jambon, PhD http://martin.jambon.free.fr Edit http://wikiomics.org, bioinformatics wiki From bcanton at MIT.EDU Wed Mar 15 15:47:18 2006 From: bcanton at MIT.EDU (Barry Canton) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:47:18 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] (no subject) Message-ID: Hi all, I'm giving a 10min talk to the Stephanopolous lab tomorrow about OWW. Its at 11.30am. If anyone is feeling evangelical and wants to help out, let me know. Thanks much, Barry From jennyn at MIT.EDU Wed Mar 15 17:39:31 2006 From: jennyn at MIT.EDU (Jenny Nguyen) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:39:31 -0600 Subject: [OWW-SC] Community News module added + toolbar Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20060315163725.0b514020@hesiod> Steering Committee, I've added a module for the Community News so that it is incorporated into the main page. I have also added a toolbar to take the place of the META section. http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page_v2 Please leave your comments (like, dislike, color suggestions, layout suggestions, etc) in the discussion. Jenny From jasonk at MIT.EDU Thu Mar 16 15:54:38 2006 From: jasonk at MIT.EDU (Jason Kelly) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:54:38 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] Fwd: npr In-Reply-To: <44186554.5080503@mit.edu> References: <44186554.5080503@mit.edu> Message-ID: <7c085c480603161254m3ab631b8j374256f65067f299@mail.gmail.com> i think it's a great quote. viva OWW! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sriram Kosuri Date: Mar 15, 2006 2:04 PM Subject: npr To: jason kelly yikes.. what a terrible quote. http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kut/local-kut-503467.mp3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/oww-sc/attachments/20060316/98cef07a/attachment.htm From ilyas at MIT.EDU Thu Mar 16 16:51:48 2006 From: ilyas at MIT.EDU (Ilya Sytchev) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:51:48 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] bio news blog on OWW Message-ID: <4419DDF4.8070902@mit.edu> I've decided to start a page (http://openwetware.org/wiki/In_the_News) for posting cool stuff from the world at large that has any kind of connection to biology. Ilya From ilyas at MIT.EDU Thu Mar 16 17:08:09 2006 From: ilyas at MIT.EDU (Ilya Sytchev) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:08:09 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] bio news blog on OWW In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20060316155415.07bca3e0@hesiod> References: <4419DDF4.8070902@mit.edu> <6.2.1.2.2.20060316155415.07bca3e0@hesiod> Message-ID: <4419E1C9.2020007@mit.edu> Yeah, I think it'd be cool to have a link to this page under "resources" or elsewhere on the front page. What does the steering committee think? Ilya Jenny Nguyen wrote: > Can we make this a link on the sidebar for easier access? > Glad you posted the Spore video! Isn't it awesome?! > > Jenny > > At 03:51 PM 3/16/2006, you wrote: >> I've decided to start a page (http://openwetware.org/wiki/In_the_News) >> for posting cool stuff from the world at large that has any kind of >> connection to biology. >> >> Ilya >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List >> sc at openwetware.org >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc > From skosuri at MIT.EDU Sun Mar 19 17:12:15 2006 From: skosuri at MIT.EDU (Sriram Kosuri) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:12:15 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] OWW Open Science Seminar Series with John Wilbanks - 3/24 1pm Message-ID: <12DE16A9-D051-42B6-8DA7-90817C928943@mit.edu> OpenWetWare Seminar Series on Open Science Impacts of Property Rights on Open Science John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons Open to the Public 1pm, Friday March 24, 2006 MIT Stata Center, 32-155 http://openwetware.org/wiki/Seminar_Series Talk Overview This talk will lay out the basic intersections of property rights - copyrights, patents, and contracts - with scientific research. The talk will also examine how approaches inspired by the Free Software movement might help create a "research commons" of freely usable tools, papers and data. Specific case studies in biological materials transfer and text mining of gene interaction networks will be presented for discussion. This seminar series is sponsored by OpenWetWare (http:// openwetware.org), a wiki serving the biological science and engineering community. Biography Adapted from the Science Commons: John Wilbanks is currently the Executive Director of Science Commons. Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science. Their goal is to encourage stake-holders to create areas of free access and inquiry using standardized licenses and other means; a 'Science Commons' built out of voluntary private agreements. John came to Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the World Wide Web Consortium in Semantic Web for Life Sciences. Previously, he founded and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research & development. Before founding Incellico, John was the first Assistant Director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He was previously a legislative aide to U.S. Representative Fortney (Pete) Stark and a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Tulane University and studied modern letters at the Universite de Paris IV (La Sorbonne). He serves on the Advisory Board of the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central and the International Advisory Board of the Prix Ars Electronica's Digital Communities awards. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/oww-sc/attachments/20060319/d7426c6a/attachment.htm From skosuri at MIT.EDU Sun Mar 19 18:30:18 2006 From: skosuri at MIT.EDU (Sriram Kosuri) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:30:18 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] seminar posting Message-ID: <1E623B42-2B4B-4106-82C7-8916A471643D@mit.edu> While we will be postering around about the seminar, here is the pdf if you would like to poster yourselves. Sri -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: WilbanksPoster.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 140592 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/oww-sc/attachments/20060319/565eb2bc/attachment.pdf From skosuri at MIT.EDU Mon Mar 20 11:38:52 2006 From: skosuri at MIT.EDU (Sriram Kosuri) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:38:52 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] Lunch with John Wilbanks Message-ID: Hi All, If anyone is interested in having lunch with John and Thinh, Science Common's COO and chief counsel, please let me know. Lunch would be held at 11:15 sharp on Friday. (Seminar starts at 1pm, so we have to end by 12:30). We will probably go to Bertucci's. Thanks, Sri From jasonk at MIT.EDU Wed Mar 22 09:06:17 2006 From: jasonk at MIT.EDU (Jason Kelly) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:06:17 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] Fwd: RE : RE : [Endipedia-admin] NOTE re WEB 2.0 message -- RE : Your message to Endipedia-admin awaits moderator approval In-Reply-To: <016801c64dae$71a0ce10$4701a8c0@nom5378c34a346> References: <43736159.1070107@mit.edu> <016801c64dae$71a0ce10$4701a8c0@nom5378c34a346> Message-ID: <7c085c480603220606q5ad3083dq67aac3947631be97@mail.gmail.com> FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Declan Butler, reporter Date: Mar 22, 2006 7:45 AM Subject: RE : RE : [Endipedia-admin] NOTE re WEB 2.0 message -- RE : Your message to Endipedia-admin awaits moderator approval To: Jason Kelly Hi Jason There's a big special in Nature tomorrow on scientific computing in 2020. It's online now, including an article on sensor webs by me -- all on free access. http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=30 Feel free to comment on the blog. Best Declan -----Message d'origine----- De : Jason Kelly [mailto:jasonk at MIT.EDU] Envoy? : 10 November 2005 16:04 ? : Declan Butler, reporter, Nature Objet : Re: RE : [Endipedia-admin] NOTE re WEB 2.0 message -- RE : Your message to Endipedia-admin awaits moderator approval Hi Declan, I hadn't seen Connotea - very cool, I'll spread the word over here. We started a wiki dsicussion page, it should develop over the course of the day: http://openwetware.mit.edu/wiki/Science_2.0 You can view history of page to see how it is evolving by clicking the 'history' tab at the top of the page. Thanks, Jason Declan Butler, reporter, Nature wrote: > Hi Jason > I think if you don't mention me or Nature that would be fine, and an > interesting experiment! I'll watch what you come up with, with great > interest! Best > Declan > PS You might have noticed my signature's link to my bookmarks on Connotea, a > social bookmarking service for scientists. When you post a scientific > article with one click from your browser, the software goes off and finds > the bibliographic data, if available, and adds it to your entry > automatically. > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Jason Kelly [mailto:jasonk at MIT.EDU] > Envoy? : 10 November 2005 14:53 > ? : Declan Butler, reporter, Nature > Cc : endipedia-admin at mit.edu > Objet : Re: [Endipedia-admin] NOTE re WEB 2.0 message -- RE : Your message > to Endipedia-admin awaits moderator approval > > > Hi Declan, > > Would you mind if we created a wiki page on OWW to discuss topics > related to your email? We actually already have some similar discussion > on our page discussing future scientific publishing approaches: > http://openwetware.mit.edu/wiki/Publishing_Group/Thoughts > > We wouldn't mention you or Nature, or specifically quote anything from > your letter. The wiki just works well for collaborating on a response, > plus would give you a picture of what collaborative document generation > looks like among scientists - in real time since we only have a day :) > > Thanks, > Jason > > > Declan Butler, reporter, Nature wrote: > >>Please note that this message was intended for just your response, not >>for posting to the list. Declan >> >>-----Message d'origine----- >>De : endipedia-admin-bounces at mit.edu >>[mailto:endipedia-admin-bounces at mit.edu] >>Envoy? : 10 November 2005 11:25 >>? : d.butler at nature-france.com >>Objet : Your message to Endipedia-admin awaits moderator approval >> >> >>Your mail to 'Endipedia-admin' with the subject >> >> Web 2.0 and science? Query from Declan Butler, senior reporter, >>Nature. >> >>Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. >> >>The reason it is being held: >> >> Post by non-member to a members-only list >> >>Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive >>notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel >>this posting, please visit the following URL: >> >> >>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/confirm/endipedia-admin/b5c1bc9619fec92 >>30e5fb >>5b8b2e197780e32c110 >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Endipedia-admin mailing list >>Endipedia-admin at mit.edu >>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/endipedia-admin > > > > From dcook at MIT.EDU Thu Mar 30 14:40:16 2006 From: dcook at MIT.EDU (Danielle Cook) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:40:16 -0500 Subject: [OWW-SC] next meeting: Monday, 4/3, 4-5 pm, 32-262 Message-ID: hi all, Our next meeting is upon us. Please add discussion items to the agenda: http://openwetware.org/index.php?title=OpenWetWare_steering_committee/Meetin g_-_4/3/06 for those dialing in, the audiobridge phone no is 617 324 7441. see you there. Danielle _________________________________________ Danielle Cook France dcfrance at mit.edu 617.258.5206 Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology _________________________________________