[Cz-biology] Biology Week coordinators & request

[Larry Sanger]

All,

I'd like to thank Supten Sarbadhikari and Daniel Mietchen for their offers
to serve as coordinators for Biology Week.  I'm putting them both down as
coordinators.

Their job, as I see it, is just to make sure that the whole preparation for
Biology Week moves along, and basically exercise whatever leadership needs
to be done.

I have some requests.  Can you please give us a list of the 20-30 top
Biology departments and scientific organizations in the English-speaking
world?  You can list them here

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Biology_Workgroup/Biology_Week/Academic_re
cruitment

either anywhere on the page, or more carefully as per the instructions.

(Note that further down on that page we'll be collecting quotations from
biologists; you could add some kind lines of your own in praise of the CZ
project and Biology Week.)

Those are the departments and organizations we'll approach for something
like an endorsement, using some version of this letter (it still needs to be
adapted as necessary by you biologists):

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Workgroup_Weeks/Endorsement_Letter_Templat
e

I figure we can get a few nice quotes for the announcement letter & press
release that way, as well as starting to get plugged into the professional
biology community.

I know this plan must sound ambitious, but it's not *that* much work,
especially if there are a number of people working on it.  The result will
almost certainly be an excellent influx of "fresh blood" for CZ.

--Larry