[OWW-Discuss] Action hour, today, Thursday at noon EST http://openwetware.org/chat/

[John Cumbers]

Hi all,
There will be another action hour today, Thursday at noon EST, To take part
go to: http://openwetware.org/chat/ login with your oww uname with
underscores replacing spaces, e.g my username is normally John Cumbers so my
chat username is: John_Cumbers
The ideas is to meet each week and provide a focal point and time for
getting things done,
Hope to see you there,
cheers,
John


Here are the actions from last week's steering committee meeting:
How to reignite the steering committee and get more people involved

   - Weekly action hour, Thursdays at 12Noon
   - Post notice on front page for each SC and action hour
   - Recruitment drive to get more people participating in the discuss
   list (or the new discussion forum). Goal: Double the number of members on
   the discuss list by... August 31?
   - Encourage personal connections between SC members and the community
   and between members of the community
   - Pay close attention to people signing up as users, and to people
   doing a lot of editing. Reach out to them individually.
   - Talk to SciLink; make a social network around OWW?
   - Initiate a discussion on the forum or discuss list of what kinds of
   tools scientists need to be part of a social network
   - come up with a user-friendly way of looking at OWW statistics
   - Focus of OWW over the next 6 months should be the promotion of open
   science and use of lab notebook
   - Some sort of viral publicity campaign centered around the new
   release of th Lab Notebook
      - Set up a blog posting schedule for a minimum of one
      publicity-oriented post about LN or other OWW features each week
      - Ricardo has contacts out in the blogosphere

Next month:

   - Talk about chairs and how to group different members around
   different areas
   - Each month, SC to come up with a samll, fun activity that can be
   picked up by a new member.


   - Lorrie: better organization of action items

At the root of it, we want to show people that they can be an active part of
a community, and that being part of the community has tangible rewards.




-- 
John Cumbers, Graduate Student
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Box G-W
Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA
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