From the contributions of the keynote speakers in the form of electronic presentations, MYRES chairs will prepare an online conference-proceedings volume that will entail all of the keynote lectures and extended abstracts from each of the educational talks. All documents will be distributed electronically and free of charge from the conference web site. In this way, we should be able to establish a comprehensive and detailed reference volume on the topic treated in each MYRES without the publication costs of conventional printed proceedings. Conference notes will additionally be published in EOS to disseminate discussions and conclusions beyond the circle of attendees. The proceedings volumes will present an invaluable resource and reference for a wide range of topics beyond the reach of textbooks and lecture notes.
The instructional material will form an integral part of the documents
that are available online. Besides putting all presentations on the
web, we will encourage presenters to write 
page extended
abstracts in a format similar to Enhanced Science Perspectives,
which would allow the inclusion of links to additional instructional
material, data, tools, or meta-data sites to back up the major ideas
lecturers want to convey with their presentations. Given the proposed
change of topics between each MYRES workshop we can expect that over
time, a database of lecture notes of controllable quality will become
available for the broad community in this way.
The second function of the MYRES web site will be as a community discussion forum for the MYRES workshops.7 We already mentioned that we are planning to have web submission and discussion of suggested programs for future MYRES meetings online, and an electronic voting system. We will furthermore publish the results of our questionnaires to make the evaluation of the conference performance as transparent as possible. To assist meeting chairs with these tasks, we apply for one week of undergraduate assistant support to maintain the web page.
Our long-term vision is to expand the functionality of the MYRES web site further to serve as a general community forum, guided by our goals of fostering an open, unbiased, and inclusive approach to science. A number of similar community sites are already available but those usually focus on specific research problems, such as the RIDGE8 or MARGINS9web sites. These sites realize some of the resources we want to implement for MYRES, and we will try to build on the lessons learned from those and similar efforts.
Among the rather easily realized services of the MYRES website will be an address database of junior researchers analogous to the AGU member directory, a set of links and descriptions of funding agencies and programs, and similar meta-data that can be useful for all members of the community. Among our more ambitious and work-intensive goals is the publication of quarterly online newsletters where we advertise to the community relevant funding and policy news, MYRES news, but also personal messages of recent graduations, new job appointments, etc., in the fashion of an alumni news magazine. We also envision an experimental, general mailing list where one can post requests for collaborators or cross-disciplinary scientific advice. This list would be managed and moderated, so that only relevant and suitably formatted messages could be posted, and would be archived by theme, as in a user forum such as the ones used for the distributed development of open-source software.