[open-science] Open Science Policy Platform - Open Science Working Group Representative

Fri Mar 18 14:53:56 UTC 2016

I agree with Konrad's suggestion of a two-sided approach:
- for the organizational track, let the global OKF propose one candidate - Jenny
- for the individual track, I think a diversity of suitable candidates
would be good.

I haven't yet gone through all the public candidate posts yet, but I
have posted one myself (which links to those that I am aware of) and
encourage others to do so as well:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/European_Commission_Open_Science_Policy_Platform
.

According to the selection criteria, they aim to "strike a balance
within the members of the group in terms of stakeholders represented,
gender, age and geographical origin", and in this dimension, a range
of community candidates can complement the organizational candidates
in a useful fashion.

Cheers,
d.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Konrad Förstner <konrad at foerstner.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Disclaimer: I have never worked on the EU level of politics so please
> correct me I am wrong.
>
> I think Jenny got a lot of support and deadline is soon (already 22nd
> of March, i.e. next week Tuesday). In order to get people in to the EU
> Open Science Policy Platform we have to play their game. The call
> states two ways of applying to become a member of the platform [1]. As
> individuals or as a representative of a organization. I talked to
> Julia Reda [2] and she said for such a platform it would be ideal to
> have a high ranking person representing its organization (the call
> talks in of a single person per organization as far as I understand
> [1]).  As Jenny is the global coordinator of the Open Science
> activities of OKFN I suggest that OKFN as an organization is applying
> and sent her as representative with that title "Global Coordinator
> Open Science".
>
> Besides this we should support individual members of the open science
> community. There are 20 - 30 slot to fill [1] and it would be a shame
> if we are not trying to get more of our people into the platform.
>
> This is why I would encourage you to apply as individuals like Björn
> Brembs and Cameron Neylon have done. I myself will apply and would be
> happy if you could endorse me here:
>
> http://thedaoofflow.fluxionary.net/2016/03/applying-for-the-european-commission-open-science-policy-platform/
>
> Cheers
>
> Konrad
>
> [1]
> https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/call_for_expression_of_interest_-_high_level_advisory_group_ospp.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Reda
>
>
>
> On Fri Mar 18, 2016 at 12:20:41AM +0000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>>
>> I have supported Cameron and will support Jenny in the same way.
>>
>> The  danger with much practice of "Open" - in the academic area and
>> probably
>> some way beyond - is that it has lost a lot of its emotional,
>> philosophical and
>> cultural roots. It's partly bureaucratic - academics have to do it and
>> many
>> hate it - and partly sold as self-interest - you get more citations. It's
>> critical that these misrepresentations don't get into European policy.
>> That's
>> why we have to have people who really believe in Open - and can put this
>> in
>> their manifestos.
>>
>> P.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Cameron Neylon <cn at cameronneylon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>    Huh, so it turns out that every email I sent to this list has never
>> gone
>>    through...odd...
>>
>>    Anyway, I am planning on applying and have been requesting endorsement
>> as a
>>    possible community representative at:
>>    http://cameronneylon.net/blog/
>>    european-commission-open-science-policy-platform/
>>
>>    Bjoern Brembs has also got a similar post up:
>>    http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/03/seeking-your-endorsement/
>>      I’d strongly support Jenny applying as both someone knowledgeable and
>>    representative of younger researchers (certainly younger than me).
>>
>>    Cheers
>>
>>    Cameron
>>          On Mar 17, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>        I will absolutely support Jenny in this. Neelie Kroes always
>>        highlighted the world-changing nature of Early Career Researchers.
>>
>>        On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Jenny Molloy
>> <jenny.molloy at okfn.org>
>>        wrote:
>>
>>            Dear Open Science Working Group
>>
>>            Konrad Förstner suggests we should put forward someone for the
>>            EU Open Science Policy Platform.
>>            More info:
>> https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=
>>            open-science-policy-platform
>>
>>            This would be a good chance to take forward our views and
>> interests
>>            at a high level in EU science policy. The nominations need to
>> be in
>>            next Tuesday so it's a bit last minute!
>>
>>            I have been considering it and would be happy to put myself
>>            forward, but if anyone else strongly wants to be the
>> representative
>>            then please let us all know.
>>
>>            Also, it would be great to get a feeling for who else is going
>> for
>>            this and whether it is looking like there is a good set of
>>            applications from the open community.
>>
>>            Best wishes
>>                      Jenny
>>
>>
>>
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