IGEM 2006 Planning

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Revision as of 20:27, 18 October 2005

2006 iGEM Planning Fun Group:

1. Jonathan Goler
2. Tom Richard, Penn State, <trichard@psu.edu>
3. Drew Endy (endy@mit.edu)
4. Malcolm Campbell (macampbell@davidson.edu)
5. Richard Murray (murray@cds.caltech.edu)

Topics:

1. Timing
   1. When does your summer start?
   2. How can we get full registry 256 plates sooner?
   3. When will minority student funds be released?
2. Community
   1. How can we reach a more diverse population of schools and students?
   2. Are there constraints to our rate of growth?
3. Communication
   1. What does it take to stimulate inter-team communications?
   2. Can a group of schools form a collective team?
4. Improving Registry
   1. Can a controlled vocabulary be developed?
   2. Can abandoned parts be addressed (e.g. submit and later email reminder to deleted automatically)?
5. Other
   1. Do we want to have categories for submission (e.g. design, modeling, characterization, etc.)?