<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I agree - I think it is MUCH better than the current email.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Julius</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><A href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Lucks">http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Lucks</A></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 2, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Reshma Shetty wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Following up on today's meeting, I wonder if it is worthwhile for us to go ahead and change the welcome email we send out. In my opinion, the current version is unnecessarily long and complicated.<BR><BR>I put a proposal for a new version at <A href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Welcome_email">http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Welcome_email</A><BR>(It also includes a copy of the current version ... which appears *very* long in email form.)<BR> <BR>I suggest this as an easy-to-implement stopgap measure until we specify and implement Julius and Vincent's new user welcome system.<BR><BR>What do people think?<BR><BR>-Reshma<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OpenWetWare Steering Committee Mailing List</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:sc@openwetware.org">sc@openwetware.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-sc</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>