[opensourcepharma] Draft Open Ebola Letter

Fri Aug 8 19:44:58 UTC 2014

Mat,

This looks good; thanks for driving it. I suggest a paragraph - may need to
be shortebned/ tweaked - and is a bit controversial:

"Knowledge generation in this area should be driven by a public good, not
by a potential financial gain of any one company. Opening to the public the
process of knowledge generation will force companies owning certain IP
rights to contribute to the discussion, while allowing them to preserve
some financial gain in case of success."

Regards,

Tomasz

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Matthew Todd <mattoddchem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Further to Els's very interesting suggestion, here's Draft 1.
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/10qD0-CLlBKp_6COmMUffZp9mp4NwJGlmcwb5Jjt_wDA/edit?usp=sharing
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> Edit away or comment, here or on the document itself. It needs to be
> short! I think given who it's addressed to it needs to be clearly a
> recommendation of the idea, rather than a direct appeal for any funding. We
> can do a lot here in advance of any up-front financial commitment, but
> which may lead to more substantial efforts later that require dollars.
>
> I'd suggest the letter come from a defined group of us, and when published
> we could ask for wider expressions of support somewhere, from the public.
>
> It feels like we'd have more impact with the support of an Ebola
> researcher - we are addressing the letter to one of the discoverers of the
> virus, I understand, so maybe that's the way to do it.
>
> Els - do you have a venue for this, and a way to alert people to it?
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> Best,
>
> M
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