Dear steering committee, <br><br>I had brought up at a past meeting about the possibly of using openwetware for abstract submissions to the BioSysBio conference (<a href="http://www.biosysbio.com">www.biosysbio.com</a>). I started a discussion
<a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Talk:BioSysBio"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here</span></span></a>, a proposal <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio">here
</a>and just set up a <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio:abstracts">draft page and abstract here </a>I wanted to confirm that people are happy with the plan and that we can go ahead with accepting abstracts. I've outlined the plan below and the advantages and disadvantages that came out of the discussion.
<br><br>Please let me have any comments or post them to the wiki.<br>cheers, <br>John<br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Outline (from mails between conference organising committee)<br></span>So we have decided that the Wiki
option on OpenWetWare.org would be best for submitting abstracts. We decided not to do an open review of abstracts on-line, but allow people to comment. People will get assigned a page to publish their abstract on, take a look how it might work here:
<a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio:abstracts" title="http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio:abstracts (http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio:abstracts)" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio:abstracts
</a><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>Advantages:</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">*This is much easier to organise the submission and review if the abstracts are open<br>*First page should be space limited, but an infinite number of pages could be linked to for follow up information.
<br>*Public abstracts should increase the quality of those submitted<br>*Forming an on-line community before the conference<br>*Allow others to comment/discuss the abstracts<br>*Novel form of on-line publishing<br><br style="font-weight: bold;">
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Disadvantages</span>:<br>*Will
people want to submit an abstract to the world 4 months before the
conference? (normally it would remain private until the conference)<br>*vandalism of others abstracts (I think unlikely)<br>
*people have to learn how to use the wiki (or could just post a jpg of a word document of they really can't do it)<br clear="all">*we have to delete any abstracts that are not selected from the site.<br><br><br><span><br>
</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> John Cumbers, Graduate Student in Computational Biology<br>Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Box G-W<br>80 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA
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