[open-science] open science meetup in Boston/Cambridge

Mon Jul 4 23:34:34 UTC 2011

I can add a list of local groups to the science.okfn.org site.
Egon and Yan are you happy for me to add your email list/google group so
people can find you and get in touch?

Jenny

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Egon Willighagen
> <egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > stkhmos at lists.okfn.org
> > http://okfn.org/groups/stockholm-open-science/ or
> > http://okfn.org/groups/stkhmos/
> > http://stkhmos.science.okfn.org/
>
> Yes - you're welcome to have all of these! :-)
>
> The one thing I'd also suggest is that national lists are also good -
> e.g. to pull people interested in different open content/data projects
> into one bigger discussion. E.g. we have these in Austria, Bulgaria,
> Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and other counties. Also have
> regional open knowledge lists in London, Berlin, etc - for people
> interested in open knowledge in different domains. This fits with OKF
> mission of strengthening broader open knowledge community.
>
> Kat, Lucy and I are going to be putting further instructions on all
> this kind of thing into a big document called the OKF Handbook soon -
> which will let people know how they can use OKF facilities to do
> useful stuff.
>
> >> This said, I'd strongly argue for using the open-science list, group
> >> and science.okfn.org for things that might be of interest to others!
> >
> > Customized lists are good for organizing things, and e.g. Swedish
> > could be allowed on our group list, but also include practical things
> > whether there are pancakes today at the restaurant we're meeting...
> > that is, things not of general interest, but useful for the group.
>
> Agreed. :-)
>
> > General interest things can indeed be better on general lists, or via
> > e.g. twitter. Our has tag is (as you might have expected from the
> > above: #stkhmos :)
>
> Yes - as long as you promise not to have all the interesting
> discussions on the Stockholm list! :-)
>
> J.
>
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