[DAS] More annotation/Reference servers please

[Cheung, Foo]

Hi all
sorry to say the obvious...

We need to seriously address how to attract more
people/universities/institutes/commercial companies to setup das annotation
servers. I am the only one here who does DAS specific work ie setting up
servers and developing viewers, and then its only when I am not overtly busy
but I have been doing a lot over the last few weeks at home.

What annotations do people what?, what client functionality do scientist
want?, what is going to get scientists to adopt this technology? Why should
they adopt DAS? The bottom line is, DAS has to provide something that
"forces" scientists to use it, something that goin to break their habits of
going from one annotation web site to another. Its time to start thinking
Microsoft style :-)
I am not sure what that is? 


I believe that DAS is way cool, there are some amazingly bright software
developers working on the java clients and some top class scientists pushing
DAS but I would like someone to address how to get "customers" lining up
each morning at 8:50am waiting to get in the front door?

I think this has been addressed previously but was not really resolved.

Foo