My previous post was really just a signal flare to see if anyone was aware of a pre-established regular blog carnival which focused on Open Science.  The consensus seems to be that no, there is not, and it would be a worthwhile idea to try.

Here are my thoughts on how to organize such a carnival, that I’m tentatively calling “Open Carnival”, but it could really use a more pithy name (hint: put your ideas in the comments):

• Focus on Open Science, including Open Access, Open Notebooks, and Open Data
• Monthly “publication”
  • This allows for a nice amount of good posts to build up, and cuts down on overhead for the host
• Themed
  • The host chooses a theme for the carnival that will be hosted at their blog.  The theme is announced at the publication of the carnival before, to allow people time to prepare their entries
• Rotating host
  • Anyone interested in hosting could add their name to a list; the carnival migrates through the list
• Content supply: automatic and manual
  • Automatic content retrieval via tag.  For instance the author could apply a tag “Open Carnival” on a post and the host could retrieve these using a tool like Google Blog search
  • Manual method in which the author emails a link to the upcoming host

Sound reasonable?  Anything I left out or should take away?  I’ve already got some ideas for themes to get things started…