Dear Funding Folk,<br><br>I forgot to mention. While I was looking for funding sources a while back, the Mellon foundation seemed especially appropriate. <br><a href="http://www.mellon.org">http://www.mellon.org</a><br><br>
They have a special program on scholarly communications. ( <a href="http://www.mellon.org/scholarly.html">http://www.mellon.org/scholarly.html</a> ) whose main missions are:<br><ul><li class="list">Use forms of scholarly
communications to stimulate collaborations among scholars and scholarly
institutions in ways that substantially advance knowledge;</li><li class="list"> Foster the means economically to sustain forms of scholarly communication; and </li><li class="list">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.</li></ul>They previously developed JStor, and also funded MIT OpenCourseWare.<br><br>Sri<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Drew Endy</b> <<a href="mailto:endy@mit.edu">endy@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="">
Quick follow-up to below.<div><br><div>This is the <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Moore</span> Foundation URL: <a href="http://www.moore.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.
<span id="st" name="st" class="st">moore</span>.org</a>/<div>They provide(d) the key support to get PLoS going.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><span id="st" name="st" class="st">Drew</span></div><div><br><div><br>
<div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<b>From: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span id="st" name="st" class="st">
Drew</span> <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Endy</span> <<a href="mailto:endy@MIT.EDU" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span id="st" name="st" class="st">endy</span>@MIT.EDU</a>
></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<b>Date: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">August 15, 2006 12:58:50 PM EDT
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<b>To: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">oww-sc <<a href="mailto:sc@openwetware.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sc@openwetware.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<b>Subject: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>[OWW-SC] OWW funding report
</b></font></div></blockquote></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10d12fda0f8a8ae0_1"><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div> OWW SC,<div><br></div><div>Belated report from last week's exploratory lunch with Don Odom of Blackwell Publishing (
<a href="http://www.blackwellpublishing.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.blackwellpublishing.com</a>/). 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).
</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, more to report...</div><div><br></div><div>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.
</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div>
<div>Best,</div><div>Drew</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<b>From: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">"Odom Don" <
<a href="mailto:DOdom@bos.blackwellpublishing.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">DOdom@bos.blackwellpublishing.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<b>Date: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">August 10, 2006 5:35:45 PM EDT
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<b>To: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><<a href="mailto:endy@mit.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
endy@mit.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<b>Cc: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">"John Benditt" <
<a href="mailto:jbenditt@mac.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jbenditt@mac.com</a>>, "Harington Robert" <<a href="mailto:RHarington@bos.blackwellpublishing.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
RHarington@bos.blackwellpublishing.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<b>Subject: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>OpenWetWare
</b></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Drew,</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">
<span>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.
</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Best regards,</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Don</span></font></div> <div>
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