[Cz-biology] Biology Week date set: Sept. 22-28

[Larry Sanger]

Hello biologists,

I've set the date for Biology Week at September 22-28.  I hope that's all
right with you all.  Since there wasn't much more input, I figure a decision
had to be made.  I think that week is long enough after the start of the
fall semester that it will be feasible for a lot of people to get involved
then.  Also, the ample lead time will help us get organized, and I suspect
we'll need that time to get organized, because we'll be doing this the first
time.

Let's get started sooner rather than later--well, some of us (Daniel for
instance) has already gotten started.  There is a lot to do, as you'll see
if you look!  My own next steps will be to get a Biology Week coordinator
installed; then I'll at least help make a list of top academic departments
in the field, together with e-mail addresses of department heads, where we
can solicit statements of support from various people and departments.  I
would like to get those mails sent out ASAP.  Anyway, more about that soon.

After that, we'll be able to send out announcements to many and various
biology workgroup mailing lists, etc.  That will be very exciting, I think,
because I am very confident we'll get ''lots'' of new biologists involved
right away, not just during Biology Week, but after every announcement we
make of Biology Week.

My hope then is that the energy and excitement we generate in the Biology
Workgroup will get other workgroups interested in doing the same.  Of
course, if energy and excitement levels are low, we can count it as another
lesson learned.  But...I don't think that's going to happen.  I suspect many
of you are simply skeptical that anything interesting is going to come out
of this initiative.  But I know from experience that many new people will
join us if we merely make our presence known and make many invitations; it's
practically a law of nature.

Mark September 22-28 on your calendars, please!

--Larry