[OWW-SC] whats new section

[Jennifer Braff]

	I just wanted to note that we've had a few "What's New" announcements  
in the past that have linked to outside content, for example 2006 iGEM  
and 6/06 OWW mention in Nature.  These fall into the category of  
external links that relate to OWW (iGEM announcement notes that iGEM  
teams have OWW notebooks).
	There is also currently the BU Synthetic Biology announcement, which  
is not specifically OWW news but is probably fine as it links to an OWW  
page on the conference.
	The q-bio conference is in a different category as it neither links to  
an OWW page about the conference, nor is it directly related to OWW.  I  
think if we allow this type of link from the main page, we risk the OWW  
main page becoming just another science news page.  Since the main page  
is an important public face of OWW, perhaps we should continue a  
general policy of linking to OWW content, with exceptions for external  
content that is deemed especially relevant to OWW or open science.

Have a good weekend-
Jen






On May 18, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Julius Lucks wrote:

> I actually think the what's new section should not be just about OWW.   
> For example, the PLoS link that featured OWW on it (that Sri sent out  
> a while ago) was a great advertisement for OWW, but probably a better  
> one for PLoS - that it is not only a good source for journal content,  
> but other 'on the web' content that its readers might like.  I think  
> we should open up the OWW highlights and what's new section so that  
> people can start to look at OWW as a portal for all sorts of content,  
> most of which is on the actual OWW site.
>
> Nature and Science both have highlights of other journal papers (and  
> even News and Views), which is probably the most useful thing about  
> those journals.  I would like to see the OWW community able to  
> aggregate other sources and highlight them for the rest of the OWW  
> users (so I don't have to read a million RSS feeds myself.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julius
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> On May 18, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Jason Kelly wrote:
>
>> Someone posted an external link in the "what's new" section of the
>> main page - to date we've had an "unofficial policy" limiting links on
>> the main page to stuff that is actually on OpenWetWare. The idea
>> being that we want to encourage people sharing stuff on OWW and
>> promote good examples within the community.
>>
>> Do we want to ask them to make an OWW page about the conference? Do
>> we want to change the policy?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> jason
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