[open-science] [OFA Fellows] Our next book, April 2013 (Bottom-Up science)

Wed Jan 16 10:39:10 UTC 2013

Thank you all.

Title: A price on open science!

Thanks!

Judit

On 16 January 2013 11:25, Shane Coughlan <shane at opendawn.com> wrote:
> Hi Judit
>
> Absolutely! Could I have a placeholder title?
>
> We aim to have essays of between 2 and 8 pages,  with an expected average of 3 to 6,  and we include thoughts both from the OpenForum Academy Fellows and from some guest authors keen to add to this debate. In the latter case,  the Fellows would decide if an essay is suitable.
>
> Here are the chapters we have at the moment:
> Public procurement: Free Software's wild frontier - Karsten Gerloff
> Title to be determined - Simon Phipps
> Title to be determined - Jochen Friedrich
> An openness marketplace: learning from standards - Andy Updegrove
> Open Innovation in the real world - Shane Coughlan
> Bottom-up creation of Open Scientific Knowledge - Peter Murray-Rust
> Understanding commercial agreements with Open Source companies - Amanda Brock
>
> Regards from Japan
>
> Shane
>
> On Jan 16, 2013, at 18:12 , Judit Kumuthini <jkumuthini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Happy new to you all!
>>
>> Yes, this is indeed an exciting and would like to volunteer. I would
>> like to know the deadlines and how I would have to contribute for
>> chapter or a micro chapter.
>>
>> Is it still possible to have a micro chapter on how much open science
>> adds value/monetary or impact and contribution to scientific research
>> and humanity with a test case?
>>
>> I would highly appreciate any feed back.
>>
>> Looking forward to hear from you all.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Judit
>>
>> On 16 January 2013 10:22, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> For those who have volunteered to be authors of Bottom Up science
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Shane Coughlan <shane at opendawn.com>
>>> Date: Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:41 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [OFA Fellows] Our next book, April 2013
>>> To: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
>>> Cc: ofafellows ofafellows <fellows at openforumeurope.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Peter
>>>
>>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 02:51 , Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Shane Coughlan <shane at opendawn.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Peter, an essay on the "Bottom-up creation of Open Scientific Knowledge"
>>>>> would be superb! I'm adding it to the list.
>>>>
>>>> I have floated this on the OKFN open-science list expecting that Imight
>>>> get a reply sometime. As it is I've got  4 replies in 2 hours! This reflects
>>>> the excitement of the topic and probably means that we shall have several
>>>> different micro-contributions in the chapter. Because of the difficulty of
>>>> coordinating a football team I've tentatively said we should restrict it to
>>>> Europe (also helps with timezones) and we've also got a contributor from
>>>> India.
>>>> Is there a formal page limit?
>>>
>>> Great news! There are no formal page limits. If you sail past 8 pages it
>>> might be time to consider slowing down, and after 12 pages it's almost
>>> certainly time to take a break, but that said... whatever is needed to get
>>> the job done.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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