RE: March Meeting for Chem on the Web and Publishing

Hi,

Recall that we really need this to be a funded  project. Volunteering is
fine, but if we want to get work done in a big way, somebody needs to be
focused on this with their day job. We talked about approaching NSF, but I
bet there are others.

I am not a grant writer.

Best
George

-----Original Message-----
From: Supalo, Cary A <csupalo@ets.org> 
Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:53 AM
To: Chemistry CG <public-chem-web-pub@w3.org>
Cc: Karbowski, Caroline F. <karbowski.4@buckeyemail.osu.edu>; Allison O'Day
<madeoday@msn.com>; Dan Barrett <boulderdan@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: March Meeting for Chem on the Web and Publishing

Good day everyone,

I wanted to take a moment to reiterate some of the key points we discussed
at our February meeting along with our discussions yesterday. This effort to
standardize descriptions of organic chemistry molecular drawings, and the
many facets it possesses and presents, is not something that can be
completed in one or two meetings.

Our first subgroup meeting last week discussed how we will be taking apart
the first semester organic chemistry textbook in a divide and conquer
approach. As discussed yesterday, we will be taking the four major chunks
that are documented in yesterday's minutes. For those of you that were
unable to attend, please feel free to consult those minutes to become
familiar with the four main chunks proposed.

I anticipate this work to be a sizable project which will take us many
months and maybe years if we wish to truly address all facets of this
challenge. Therefore, I think it is imperative that we try to recruit
additional members to this chemistry community.

After our kickoff with the brain storming session later this month on March
18th, I anticipate that we will likely form multiple subgroups to try to
address each of the major chunks of organic chemistry content. The purpose
of the kickoff/brain storming meeting on March 18 is to try to devise some
proof of concept approach of doing description, using the artefact of the
organic chemistry mechanism that Stefan sent out yesterday. If we can
leverage this to sketch out some rudimentary set of conventions as to how to
go about addressing the larger challenge we have put before ourselves, then
I hope this will catalyze many innovative ideas for how to work through the
four major chunks.

I am optimistic as I said yesterday that we can successfully tackle this
transformative project. However, at the end of our work, it is likely we
will still have exceptions that will still not comply with our conventions.
Therefore, we are focusing our efforts first on a typical first semester
organic chemistry course. Once we have worked through the four major chunks
of organic chemistry content in this course, we can try to address the
second semester organic chemistry course.

To keep ourselves energized around this formidable challenge, let's stay
focused on the immediate work at hand - the kickoff, and the first year
organic chemistry content. In the meantime if you know any other people that
you feel could find these types of discussions interesting, I would
encourage you to recruit them to join this community group.

Again, I want to thank each one of you for your willingness to participate
in this group and in this work which will surely change access to STEM for
many. Without each of you, we could not be attempting to take on this
moon-shot before us. I am genuinely excited about the possibilities and I am
looking forward to our many successes in the months and years ahead.

Cary




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