Getting the powers that be interested in the web

[peter Murray-rust]

On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Paul Archer (Dip.Comp) wrote:

> 
> >>
> >> Dave Currie
> >>
> >> p.s. I am a postdoc, and it interesting to see what the positions are of the
> >> people who are administering depts' web pages !
> >
> >  I am also a post-doc as I suspect <em>most</em> webmasters are.
> >  The WWW is young persons `thing' essentially and we need to work
> >  at it to demonstrate the tremendous possibilities it offers.
> 
> I am a Technician (responsible for the graphic requirements of the
> department). Like others I set up the site to satisfy my own interests
> (hence the reason it is situated in my user area). Unfortunatly I still
> think it is still only for my interests in the Web (The department shows
> little interest I am always pushing for fresh information). One of the
> reasons I suggested computer conferences instead of live conferences is
> because my department made me take the day off to attend the meeting and
> cover my own traveling expences. I would be intersested in the
> circumstances other Web masters work. Is it mainly done in our own time or
> do some people get time allocated when they can officially work on their
> pages?
> 
> Thanks for setting up a computer conference. I may not be able to attend
> all meetings, but i will monitor all mailings.

I have been amazed and gratified by the enthusiasm shown (worldwide) by 
younger people in setting up the virtual orghanisations of the future.  
The Globewide Network Academy's president is Joe Wang - a postgraduate in 
astrophysics - the first WWW course (C++) was run by Marcus Speh when a 
PG at DESY Hamburg (theoretical physics) and the wizard of BioMOO 
(Gustavo Glusman) is a PG (mol. biol.)  Add to this the GNA's treasurer 
(Colman Reilly, Maths PG) and Georg Fuellen (Biocomputing course, VSNS 
and Bielefeld PG) and grizzled oldies like me are the exception.  Barry 
Hardy (PD at Oxford) set up EGC-1 virtual conf on glycoscience...

	So you will see that it's very much a thing of the future.  HOW 
an individual or institution gets there is impossible to say - but you 
must trust your own intuition - it won't always be easy.  If this list 
generates what I call 'virtual critical mass' (and it's shown every signs 
of doing so in the last few days) it will be a very valuable resource in 
helping to convince Departments of the importance of the WWW.

	P.


 > 

Peter Murray-Rust, Glaxo Research & Dev. (pmr1716 at ggr.co.uk); (BioMOO: PeterMR)
Birkbeck College, ubcg09q at cryst.bbk.ac.uk, CBMT/Daresbury mbglx at seqnet.dl.ac.uk
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/HOME.html


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