[drn-cam-discuss] Next Cambridge Copynight: Thursday 7th September 2006, 7pm

Sat Sep 2 07:17:38 UTC 2006

At 13:38 21/08/2006, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>peter murray-rust wrote:
>>At 12:59 21/08/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>>**** Cambridge Copynight: Thursday 7th September 2006, 7pm  ****
>>
>>I hope to be there.
>>P.

I will be - even though it is my wedding anniversary I have leave to escape...

Immediate things:
I have set up two blogs:

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/ which deals with a wide 
range of topics including this forum.  I may blog some of Thursday's 
meeting. I am particularly excited by placeopedia as it seems to 
epitomise what we are doing. Blog topics will include XML in science, 
virtual communities, open knowledge and why scientists need to know 
how to program

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/cml/ is dedicated to Chemical Markup Language

I am talking at the American Chemical Society in 8 days time. This 
will cover both technology and politics. Some of you may have seen 
Peter Suber's Open Access post about the silly statement by the Royal 
Soc Chemistry that Open Access publishing is "ethically 
flawed". 
(http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_08_20_fosblogarchive.html 
"Royal Society of Chemistry lashes out"). You can argue that OA is 
stupid, cost ineffective, disruptive, etc. but NOT ethically flawed. 
Oh dear. I shall probably blog this today

>Great. Thought you might also be interested to read the second post 
>down on the http://blog.okfn.org/: "Dead knowledge: why being 
>explicit about openness matters"
>
>Which was inspired by (and derives from) a lengthy conversation we 
>had a while back.

Indeed. Thanks and your blog is linked. I am hoping to create a 
chemical RSS feed from current journals to show at the ACS meeting. 
In principle this announces to commercial secondary aggregators that 
their days are limited.

P.

P.

>Regards,
>
>Rufus
>
>Also available at:
>
><http://blog.okfn.org/2006/08/08/dead-knowledge-why-being-explicit-about-openness-matters/>
>
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>>>
>>>Announcing the next Cambridge Copynight dedicated to discussing 
>>>digital rights, open knowledge and F/OSS. It's a chance to chat 
>>>and chew over the latest tech and digital rights issues while 
>>>drinking coffee (or even having a meal).
>>>
>>>Obviously this is likely to be of more interest to people in and around
>>>Cambridge but anyone is welcome. *If you intend to come it would 
>>>be great if you could RSVP so we have an idea of numbers* (though, 
>>>of course, people are free just to show up on the day).
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Rufus Pollock
>>>
>>>Summary
>>>=======
>>>
>>>Where: CB2 Cafe, Norfolk Street, upstairs <http://tinyurl.com/fcf27>
>>>When: First thursday of every month
>>>Who: Anyone who wants to come
>>>
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>>Peter Murray-Rust
>>Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics
>>University of Cambridge,
>>Lensfield Road,  Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
>>+44-1223-763069
>
>Peter Murray-Rust
>Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics
>University of Cambridge,
>Lensfield Road,  Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
>+44-1223-763069 