CZ Talk:Biology Workgroup/Biology Week

When?

Hello biologists,

It's looking like Biology Week is most viable as our first Workgroup Week, thanks to volunteering by Supten S., John Dennehy, and Anthony Sebastian (and Daniel Mietchen).

For future reference, note that CZ:Biology_Workgroup/Workgroup_Week is reachable from both the Biology Workgroup homepage, as well as the Workgroup Weeks homepage.

In order to give journals, newsletters, and others adequate lead time to announce Biology Week, the week itself should take place 6-8 weeks from the time we actually send the announcements out. I would have preferred that it take place this summer, but two weeks from right now is mid-July, and we probably won't be able to do the promotional work for another few weeks, which would put 8 weeks away in August--and August is no good, because it's vacation time for too many people. That puts us into September.

Sooo...I'm thinking Sept. 7-13. Does that sound doable? Too close to the beginning of the semester? (Would the next week be better?) If you have any objections, suggestions, cogitations, etc., please let me know now!

Please discuss below!

Otherwise, I'll make a general announcement of this date by Friday.

Also, bear in mind we will need a Biology Week coordinator--a bio editor. I'll work with this person and try to make it as painless as possible. --Larry Sanger 14:05, 21 May 2008 (CDT)

The date works for me. --John J. Dennehy 14:12, 21 May 2008 (CDT)

Early September might be a bit too close to the start of the semester. Things are very hectic at that time. You might want to consider a little later in the month, maybe the 22nd or 29th.

I think that early fall would be better than mid summer, but because this is an election year, we don't want to push it later into the fall because everyone will be distracted by politics.

John Moffett 06:32, 22 May 2008 (EDT)

An argument for a July date could be The 19th International Biology Olympiad taking place in Mumbai, India from July 13-20, 2008. September would be good because that's the time when lecturers start thinking about how to organize homework assignments, from which CZ:Eduzendium might profit. -- Daniel Mietchen 18:58, 22 May 2008 (CDT)