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This page should serve as a resource for the participants in the IGEM Ambassador Program to internally share ideas, organize ourselves, and reduce redundant email traffic.

Contents 1 School-Primary Ambassador Summary 2 Potential iGEM Artwork/Logos 3 Meetings in Boston (28th-30th of march) 4 Schedule 5 Ambassador School Selections 5.1 general remarks 5.2 Global Distribution of Teams

School-Primary Ambassador Summary

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Potential iGEM Artwork/Logos

Hey guys, I had a few spare hours free this evening and since I'm set to plunge into revision for the coming month I figured I'd have a shot at a potential logo for the competition before the work takes over; comments very welcome, see what you think of the first draft, click here for full version:

James, 01/04/06

Comments: hahahaha great stuff! It's got my vote....could you make the 'i' a little darker though? --melissa Nice work! I like it. And I agree with Melissa- I think the 'i' should stand out some more. --Meaganl 18:09, 3 April 2006 (EDT)}

My favorite part of the logo is the gear, the rest is very busy. I wanted to create something simpler that kept the gear motif, but make it from 'bacteria'. --Ahessel 19:53, 7 April 2006 (EDT)

I agree Andrew - the first draft is far too busy. I like the idea of simple design and minimal color scheme - if we intend to use this for stationary, promotion, T-shirts etc. simple and stylist is good. I know what you mean about the gear motif - it is striking and in a way kinda has a reference to a biobrick-containing plasmid.

I've spent far too much time on fieworks and come up with far too many alternatives/tweaks to mine and Andrew's attempts so far. May as well throw them up now to gather people's opinion. Some have promise, others are just darn right OTT. They do illustrate a few minor features that could be thrown together to get it just right thou.

James 10/04/06

Simple 3

Olympic Gears

	--Meaganl 13:41, 10 April 2006 (EDT) I did like that James's original idea had both the cell and the gear so I came up with this. It's in the "skeleton" stage as I think there could be a bit more going on with the cell. And now that I see the others I think I like the wider font for the text.
	--James I think you're right, gear & cell together - here's a step back towards the original - we're getting there... --Ahessel 16:13, 10 April 2006 (EDT) Hmmm. Is the bacteria too limiting? Already some groups are already moving on to both yeast and plant cells. I like this one the best by far. Though I'm not sure about the dot of the "i" beeing a gear too. And maybe you want the other two gears actually be connected, ot give the impression that your machines actually work instead of having just uncoinnected gears in the cell -jonas 16:26, 10 April 2006 (EDT) --Ahessel 15:16, 11 April 2006 (EDT) It's still too busy for my taste, but I'm a fan of more streamlined logos and wordmarks. They tend to be more enduring. iGEM last year hacked bacteria. This year, we may get plants and yeast. In five years, who knows?
	--Jamesbrown 17:11, 11 April 2006 (EDT) How about this folks? After a little deliberation - this is simple, works well in greyscale and b&w and has the whole essence of iGEM in a gear and plasmid/biobrick concept.

all of these look great. my two favourites are the most recent one from James (most professional) and the first one (most creative). If on the first one you could turn down the contrast of the shading on the outside of the cell border while leaving the "i" of the DNA/nucleolus, i would believe it to be the uncontested champion :P --Melissa

Meetings in Boston (28th-30th of march)

Andrew Hessel, Melissa Li, Jonas Nart, Reshma Shetty, MIT, March 31, 2006 Photo: R. Rettberg

Some Ambassadors will be in Boston at the end of march, to dicuss topics related to the ambassador program. Stuff related to this is on meetings in march.

Schedule

The ambassadors other plans for spring/summer (where they are, what they're doing, and how much time they can invest in the ambassador program). Please add your information, so we get an overview for planning.

	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Jonas Nart	Michigan, some time	lots of time	lots of time	learning, some time	learning, some time	learning, some time	exams(?), not so much time	exams, not so much time	more time	more time
[http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Andrew_Hessel Andrew Hessel]	Cambridge, full time	full time	full time	full time	full time	holiday end of August [http://burningman.com (BRC)]	full time	full time	full time	full time
Tamara Ulrich	exams (no time)	lots of time beside lectures	lots of time beside lectures (no time in the first half)	lots of time beside lectures	no time	second half lots of time	lots of time beside learning	lots of time beside learning	time during weekends	time during weekends
Melissa Li	classes, grad school visits	classes, grad school visits	exams (bad!)	full-time	full-time	full-time -> start grad school late August	classes	classes	classes	classes
James Brown	classes Masters Project	Exams	Exams	Lots of free time	full-time	full-time	full-time	classes - some time -> start grad school early Oct	classes - some time	classes - some time
Robin	exams	part time	part time	part time	part time, unavailable from 18th to 25th	some time, learning	some time, exams	some time, exams	part time	part time
[http://openwetware.org/wiki/Reshma_Shetty Reshma Shetty]	some time ----->
Meagan Lizarazo	very little time	very little time	very little time	part-time ----->
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Ambassador School Selections

Please indicate which schools you intend to take primary responsibility for as well as any secondary preferences. Negotiate as required. Nothing is fixed in stone.

general remarks

I think it doesn't make sense for me to fill in my name in some random american schools, since it doesn't really make a difference for me if I end up with Duke or Penn state. We have to see how many european schools participate, to see how much of your presence is required there. Otherwise, i'd also like to see Japan jonas 10:53, 25 Feb 2006 (EST)

I'm certainly willing to take one of the European schools, but as there are nearly no schools from Europe yet (I really hope this is going to change), I'm also perfectly happy with travelling a little further. I'd very much like to go to Asia (especially Japan), and I'd also do some schools from America (and Canada), if there are too many schools for too few US ambassadors. Tamara 10:11, 26 Feb 2006 (UTC).

I am prepared to cover as many North American schools as necessary but will probably act mainly as a secondary for european schools. Dibs on Singapore, though. --Ahessel 12:38, 27 Feb 2006 (EST)

I guess that for new continental european schools, we just put in our names (the ETH guys), without setting prejudices who actually takes these teams. I did this for Ljubljana. jonas 16:41, 1 March 2006 (EST)

I am very flexible. It makes sense for Jonas, Tamara and me to do European schools. For me, a special preference would be NCBS Bangalore. -- Robin

I'd really like to see Montreal and Toronto! I wonder if we could coax any teams out of Australia/NZ (not to mention more European schools)...I heard they have some great engineering programs there but I'm not so sure about their biology programs? -- Melissa Li

We have space for people to crash if they want to visit Toronto. :) --Ahessel 20:35, 21 March 2006 (EST)

Global Distribution of Teams

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