[open-science] Name Change for Working Group

Sat Mar 31 11:08:20 UTC 2012

> Does anyone have any objections?

Certainly no objections, as long as it's made clear that Open Data is one
of our core topics.
We don't want to become, or more importantly, be seen as *yet another Open
Access advocacy group *

Ross

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Jenny Molloy <jenny.molloy at okfn.org>wrote:
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>> Dear All
>>
>> A good while ago the idea was floated that we should change our name from
>> our official title of the 'Working Group on Open Data in Science' (
>> http://blog.okfn.org/2009/03/13/working-group-on-open-data-in-science/) to
>> the 'Open Science Working Group' to reflect our expanding membership and
>> broadening scope.
>>
> +1
>
> And Jenny is already promoting the Open Science meme in Oxford with
> monthly meetings.
>
>
>>  Jenny
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