Our next community call will take place this Thursday, February 13. The call is open to the public and will start at 11 am ET. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad (where you can also find notes and the agenda) and on the wiki. (If you have trouble with the toll-free number, try one of the numbers at the bottom of this post.)
The Science Lab meeting is our community call, taking place on the second Thursday of every month, highlighting recent developments and work of the community relevant to science and the web. Join us to hear more about current projects, find out how you can get involved, and hear from others about their work in and around open research.
This month, we’ll be hearing about some new projects looking at crowdfunding scientific research, sharing large datasets and content on the web, as well as a new prototype exploring how best to surface open source tools for scientific research to the broader community.
For this call, we’re delighted to be joined by Cindy Wu, founder of the newly relaunched Experiment.com (formerly Microryza), a crowdfunding platform for science experiments (think Kickstarter for science). She’ll be telling us more about the state of funding for the sciences and how Experiment.com is setting out to help.
We’ll also be joined by Joseph Paul Cohen and Henry Lo, two PhDs in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Boston. They’ll be telling us more about their new project Academic Torrents, a distributed system for sharing large amounts of data.
And last but not least, Jure Triglav, co-founder of Modra Jagoda and ScienceGist, will be walking us through the thinking behind his latest prototype Science Toolbox, a means of indexing open source scientific software. Jure has also written some stellar posts in recent months around issues relevant to science on the web. Be sure to check out his blog for more.
Have a project, idea or blog post you’d like to share relevant to open science? Add it to the etherpad (see line 88). It’s a great way to share what you’re working on and/or interested in with the community. Don’t be shy. Have a look at last month’s notes for an idea of what others contributed to the conversation.
Mark your calendars, tune in and help us spread the word. Our first few calls have hit record participation (and stretched the limits of open software solutions). Let’s see if we can drum up the same turnout, and be sure to join us a few minutes before 11 ET to secure a spot on the line. For call-in details and links to the etherpad, visit our wiki page. We hope you’ll join us.
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Note: Our last couple of community calls have been so well-attended that we overstretched the capabilities of our conference call system! If you have trouble accessing the toll-free conference call number, try one of these numbers. (Note that they are toll calls and you’ll be charged by your telephone company if the number is long-distance.)
After you enter the extension, you’ll be asked for the conference ID, which is 7677.
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, extension 92
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, extension 92
- US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, extension 92
- CA/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, extension 92
- CA/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, extension 92
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, extension 92
- FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, extension 92