To Science Foo or not to Science Foo?

Posted on May 16, 2007 by | 6 Comments

Maxine Clark, Attila Csordas, Deepak Singh, PZ Myers, Pedro Beltrao, Jean-Claude Bradley, Pierre Lindenbaum, Peter MR, Andrew Walkingshaw, Anna Kushnir, Timo Hannay, Richard Akerman and yours truly are some of the 200 people invited by Google, Nature and Tim O’Reilly to participate in this summer’s Science Foo Camp. Apparently, the last year’s camp was a blast. I’ll give it another 48 hours to think before I reply, but I hope it is a Yes and that I will go, evangelize for Open Science and learn a lot about the ways it can be implemented.

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6 responses to “To Science Foo or not to Science Foo?”

  1. Paul Jones's avatar Paul Jones | May 16, 2007 at 10:43 am |

    You should def say YES. FOO events are great casual ways to get to know a variety of folks involved in different areas.And yes yes do advocate for Open Science.

  2. Andrew Walkingshaw's avatar Andrew Walkingshaw | May 16, 2007 at 11:35 am |

    Hi there! I’m really looking forward to it (though as I’m really a mineralogist/physicist, it looks like I’m going to be enormously outnumbered by the life scientists!)
    Open Science – well, you’ll definitely have PMR on your side there. I’m hoping it’ll be one of the themes of the conference.

  3. Abi's avatar Abi | May 16, 2007 at 11:44 am |

    Yay! Congratulations!
    Just say ‘yes!’ If you can get ‘Nature’ to go the Open Science way, there’s nothing like it!

  4. Pedro Beltrao's avatar Pedro Beltrao | May 16, 2007 at 12:41 pm |

    Correction: I was there last year but I was not invited to go this year 🙂

  5. coturnix's avatar coturnix | May 16, 2007 at 2:57 pm |

    Eh, bummer! I was looking forward to meeting you in person!

  6. apalazzo's avatar apalazzo | May 19, 2007 at 1:05 pm |

    Yeah I’m making up my mind too about going … it would be nice to meet you all …