[OWW-Discuss] Fwd: [Oww-Feedback] Contact us. (from The Royal Society)
Bill F
bill.altmail at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 10:48:43 EDT 2008
I borrowed the RSS class we use to generate our daily and monthly RSS feeds
as the basis for a simple extension to grab the content of the calendar
events. I have a meeting and a lot of other things to do today but when I
have a little time, I'll post an example of this kind of RSS feed.
We could generalize this so that we can have an RSS feed generated for any
calendar. That would mean people can "subscribe" to each other's lab
notebooks and keep abreast of any updates to it.
In the spirit of reciprocity, it might be useful to think about how a person
hosting such a list would know how much activity was present on their RSS
feed. This is clearly not an original idea: blogs have been doing it for a
long time. But it would be nice to think about how this could be tracked. We
could do it via Feedburner: publish all RSS feeds that way. The advantage of
this would be that the data would be disseminated via Google to a lot of
people.
OK. Sorry to be so verbose today.
B.
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> If there was an RSS feed to accompany the calendar, it could also be
> pretty useful. Too bad the current calendar extension doesn't "know" about
> how to generate an RSS feed. If it did, this would work for lab notebooks as
> well as the event calendar.
>
> Hmm...
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This message is great content for an OWW "coming events" section,
> > something we don't really have. Boy.. we could even schedule out monthly
> > meetings using it... it could be a great resource for people looking for
> > info on biological or lab science events in their area... maybe it would be
> > a resource others would come to rely upon....
> >
> > Nah...
> >
> >
> > Maybe...
> >
> > We can use the Calendar extension to create one.
> >
> > An event might look something like this... (now in place but subject to
> > change)
> >
> > [[Event:Events By Date/2008/06/03|Royal Society Meeting: Future of
> > Synthetic Biology in the UK]]
> >
> > Please push it around and see if anyone can do anything less geeky that
> > I would do with the design.
> >
> >
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> > From: OpenWetWare Feedback Form on OpenWetWare <feedback at openwetware.org
> > >
> > Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM
> > Subject: [Oww-Feedback] Contact us. (from The Royal Society)
> > To: Oww-Feedback <U8f5Wq2p9V6 at openwetware.org>
> >
> >
> > Dear colleague,
> >
> > The Royal Society is planning a seminal discussion meeting on Synthetic
> > Biology to discuss the future of this emerging area in the UK. The
> > programme is being organised by Professor Brian Spratt FRS, Dr Jason Chin,
> > Professor Richard Kitney and Professor Paul Freemont and will be held at the
> > Royal Society in London on Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 June 2008.
> >
> > The meeting aims to capture the recent developments in this rapidly
> > developing field and to look at potential applications of synthetic biology.
> > The meeting should help to clarify the wider issues associated with
> > synthetic biology and how these might be addressed. We anticipate this
> > being a very popular meeting.
> > A report of the meeting will be produced by the programme organising
> > committee that will capture the major developments, applications and issues
> > identified at the discussion meeting.
> > We would be grateful if you could distribute this information and list
> > it on your department website, if you think appropriate. Many thanks in
> > advance.
> > Royal Society scientific discussion meeting announcement
> > Synthetic Biology - Monday 2 – Tuesday 3 June 2008
> > Organised by Professor Brian Spratt FRS (Imperial College London), Dr
> > Jason Chin (University of Cambridge), Professor Richard Kitney (Imperial
> > College London) and Professor Paul Freemont (Imperial College London)
> >
> > Synopsis:
> > Synthetic biology has been described as the design and construction of
> > novel artificial biological pathways, organisms or devices, or the redesign
> > of existing natural biological systems.
> >
> > It has developed from the convergence of other disciplines such as
> > systems biology, genetic engineering, engineering, information theory,
> > physics, nanotechnologies and computer modelling.
> > This meeting will discuss advances and applications of this exciting
> > technology.
> > Speakers include:
> > Dr Jason Chin, Professor Martin Fussenegger, Professor Phil Holliger, Dr
> > Farren Isaacs, Professor Jay D. Keasling, Professor Alex Ninfa, Professor
> > Steve Oliver, Dr Georg Seelig, Professor Pamela Silver, Dr Danielle
> > Tullman-Ercek, Professor Hans Westerhoff and Dr Lingchong You
> >
> > Registration:
> > The meeting is free to attend but pre-registration online is essential.
> > The online registration form and programme is available at
> > www.royalsociety.org/events
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >
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