"Daniel Mietchen - Open Science Policy Director" Congrats, Daniel! - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Thanks. As for the site being cluttered, we welcome suggestions. - Daniel Mietchen

Just an initial impression: "Oh, this is a site talking about some initiative. Oh, wait, there's a forum and a place to register so maybe the...wait, here's an activity stream from members!" Seems like the front page is going in a bunch of different directions at once. - Mr. Gunn

You certainly got a point there but the site is indeed an umbrella platform for initiatives that go into very different directions, e.g. http://pyrn.ways.org/ and http://giraf-iffd.ways.org/ , and the parent site aggregates that content and provides the forum to discuss matters of interest across the different initiatives. - Daniel Mietchen

I like what you're doing there, but I think you may want to think about usability. What does a prospective member think when they land on the page? Is the value proposition clear, or will it be just another site they'll have to sign up for, track activity on, etc. - Mr. Gunn