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

Thu Jun 23 09:13:52 UTC 2011

Hi Yan,

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Yan Zhu <zyan at mit.edu> wrote:
> I'm Yan, one of the founders of the open science student group at MIT. I've
> been following this mailing list for a while now and thought it might be
> useful for those of us in the Boston/Cambridge area to have a meetup, at
> least so that those of us in the MIT group can get a better feel for what
> people in the area are doing to support the goals of open science. We're
> fairly new to the game and still trying to figure out what next semester
> will look like in terms of our objectives, so it'd be helpful for us to make
> connections to members of the okfn community.

I think these smaller scale meetups (e.g. compare to OKCon) are indeed
important!

After meeting up with people working on an electronic labnotebook
system here at Karolinska, I finally picked up an my earlier intention
to start a regular meeting series, resulting in Stockholm Open Science
[0]. In fact, we'll meet up today for the first time, and meet monthly
after summer (in fact, this is a bit late, as for many here summer
starts today, though the weather disagrees [1] :). The main goal of
these lunch meeting would be to network, learn from each other, etc.

I was wondering if the Open Science wg should perhaps set up a list of
such local initiatives on a the OKFN website?

Greetings,

Egon

0.https://groups.google.com/group/stkhmos/about?hl=sv&noredirect=true
1.http://www.smhi.se/vadret/nederbord-molnighet/norden

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