[OWW-SC] Fwd: Science BarCamp/SHDH

[julius@younglucks.com]

It could be a nice part of an OWW conference.  What ever happened to  
discussions about a conference?

Sounds like a good SC blog topic.

Julius

Quoting Mackenzie Cowell <macowell at gmail.com>:

> Jason Morrison found an interesting article called Silicon Valley Hackfest
> Hints at How Laboratory Scientists Could
> Communicate<http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/10/superhappydevcon_20_hints_at_h.php>.
> Here's the money quote:
>
> "Coders are accustomed to communicating with each other must faster than
> their laboratory-bound counterparts. Some Google employees told me how they
> are barraged each day with a phalanx of email. Countless message boards, IRC
> channels, and other sites allow isolated programmers to share with each
> other. And then we have this: a gathering with lightning talks and guys
> squeezed ten to a folding table sharing ideas as quickly as they can speak.
> Perhaps this allows their culture and projects to evolve more quickly as
> well.
>
> By comparison, there are few chemistry message boards, and only the open
> access journals like chemistry central include a comments thread alongside
> every peer-reviewed research paper, and conferences are dry, twice-a-year
> poster and powerpoint affairs.
>
> It makes perfect sense that information technology for laboratory scientists
> would lag behind that which is at the disposal of career programmers,
> because the coders can make their own. But despite that understanding, I
> want more. I want lightning talks, and hack days, and zillions of active
> boards for biologists and chemists and physicists."
>
> Interestingly, Jason points out that he originally found the article because
> it was linked two in a different post by Bryan Bishop, who has posted to the
> BBF-standards workshop.
>
> I'm not sure how a biology-based 12-hour hackfest / devhouse would work, but
> we should figure it out and hold one (we could at least have a parts
> curation party for the registry...).
>
> Mac
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Morrison <jason.p.morrison at gmail.com>
> Date: Jan 28, 2008 5:42 PM
> Subject: Science BarCamp/SHDH
> To: Mackenzie Cowell <macowell at gmail.com>
>
>
> http://www.barcamp.org/Barcamp%20and%20Hackfest
>
> (links to
> http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/10/superhappydevcon_20_hints_at_h.php
> )
>
> Of interest: I think the barcamp article is posted by Bryan Bishop
> (http://heybryan.org/) from Austin TX and has posted to the
> BBF-standards mailing list.
>
> Jason
>
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