[CDAO-discuss] developing milestones for goals set in August

[Arlin S. <sto...@um...>]

Welcome to our new public list!

At the July-August developer meeting in New Mexico, we discussed four  
priorities:

1.  Funding.  This discussion should go on the private list ( cda...@go... 
  ).

2.  Opening up the development model, and making CDAO a community  
project.  There are two parts of this-- technology support and  
community engagement.  We need the infrastructure to support a  
community project, and we need to cultivate a community of stakeholder- 
participants.  I'm going to start a separate thread for this.

3.  Setting up some kind of portal to showcase interop resources.  The  
portal would provide services such as format conversion.

4.  Finding ways to train students and others so that they can be  
productive quickly.  Because we don't have specific funding, we have  
to make this project work by combining many smaller efforts.  But each  
new person working on the project requires time to get familiar with  
the concepts and approaches of phylogenetics and ontology.

I'm going to start a separate thread for #2 and #3.

Arlin


-------
Arlin Stoltzfus (sto...@um...)
Fellow, CARB; Adj. Assoc. Prof., UMBI; Research Biologist, NIST
CARB, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
tel: 240 314 6208; web: www.molevol.org